Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 8:32 PM -0500 2/9/00, Gaifana@aol.com wrote: >(Nostalgia at 26) > >Big fun. But will the Nikon take the nifty old S lenses? Will the Canon have >that weird foil shutter and wonderful chrome? Or will it be polycarbonate? >How will the CLE look in even more plastic? Will it key the right framelines >with a 50? I shudder to think. But it will be fun. Think of all the flame >wars that will start as first the Leica M vs Leica M clone fight starts - >and then the screwmount clones vs the M clones, and then the M users against >all comers! > >I thought the whole point was optics, and I think I would rather have >something that takes Leitz glass, or at least can be adapted to take the >worthwhile SM lenses Leica does not make. Sure, Nikon lenses are good now, >but the majority of their designs seems to ignore out-of-focus areas. They >don't look like Sonnars like they did in the S era. It's great for landscape, >but with a few exceptions, Nikkors are hard and cold and precise lenses. I >love them for everything - but faces. Over the last number of years I've updated some lenses (Hologon-> Heliar, 21 Elmarit -> 21 ASPH, 35/1.4 -> 35/1.4 ASPH, 90/2 -> 90/2 APO ASPH) and I have been very happy with each upgrade. True, the 15 revision hasn't been in favour of a Leica lens, but there wasn't a huge range of choices. In any case, at this time I can't see abandoning the ASPH Leica lenses for anything. They are great, they are amazing. A reasonably priced Konica, Nikon, Canon or whatever body with some useful new features migh find a place next to my Leicas, but the glass I have is likely to stay, and that includes the older Leica lenses I have. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com