Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well the Nokton (Cosina) 50 1.5, with a LTM to M adapter, is about $500-525. What's the Summilux, which is optically not quite as good, $1600-1700? The 75 2.5, which is good, but not as good as the 75 Summilux 1.4, is about 1/5th of the price of the Leica lens....and so on... Except for the 50, the Cosina's aren't as "good" as their Leica counterparts, but that doesn't mean they aren't "good." And it also doesn't mean that they aren't a good way for someone getting into Leica photography to expand his or her lens range at reasonable cost....I know it will come as a shock to many on this list, but some of us are using Leica Ms because they are the best RANGEFINDER cameras available, and have good optics...and if Canon or Nikon made good rangefinders, and Leica didn't but made great reflexes, we would still be using Canons or Nikons because we want a RANGEFINDER camera.... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of DonjR43198@aol.com Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:04 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Consensus? Skopar 24mm In a message dated 4/7/00 11:55:41 AM Central Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << Excellent point....Nor, I guess, would someone looking at two photos side by side, of different subjects, comment on the sharpness of the lenses they were shot with, rather than on the photos themselves, UNLESS one lens was a coke bottle bottom...and MTF graphs aside, that doesn't seem to be the case with the Cosinas. I know it's certainly not the case with the Nokton, which produces terrific results... >> What is the comparable price of the Cosinas, Nokton and Leica lenses? Don R.