Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd love a 60! flat field! hugely protected front element! Mark Rabiner --> Flat field Is that a characteristic of all the 60mm macros or only of the Leica R one ? There once were comments that the 60mm Leica R was not quite as sharp as "should" be, which I doubt, and some competing designs get very high scores, some even, it seems, beating the Leica R Macro-Elmarit 60mm. Perhaps would someone care to compare it to, for instance, a 50mm Summicron-R for a "common" reference ? What is the general opinion on using a Summicron R 50mm with close-up lenses (does Leica make any? ) as a far less expensive surrogate to a 60mm Macro in terms of resulting images , for "casual" macro-photography ? What about color accuracy and tonal range ? If only the Macro 60 Leica R was about the same price as a Summicron, but it's more than twice the price in Canada . . . The ideal focals, to me, remain 28mm and 60mm, telephoto enough for my needs and tastes. Andre Jean Quintal