[Leica] Voigtlander Nokton; Zeiss 50/1.4

[Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>]

2000-03-06-10:24:37 Doug Cooper:
> [...]I've yet to be bowled over by the Zeiss 50/1.4, the supposed
> benchmark for normal lenses.  I have it on a Contax RTS, and am getting
> better results from, for instance, the Tamron SP 90 (first version) on the
> same camera.  [...] (God, there must be *some* circumstances in which is
> shines; it sits at the top of just about every test ever issued.)

Isn't the scuttlebutt that it's quite good at infinity, where most of
us don't make our most interesting pictures?  How does that notion
square with your observations?

 -Jeff