Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/27

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Subject: RE: [Fwd: [Leica] Voigtlander Ultra-Wide - Heliar 12mm f/5.6 Asph erical]
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:53:11 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Walter S Delesandri [mailto:walt@jove.acs.unt.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:48 AM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Leica] Voigtlander Ultra-Wide - Heliar 12mm f/5.6
>Aspherical]
>
>
>Look at it objectively, without your Leica religion.....if it were 
>1957, would you take an M3DS with a goggled Summaron?....or a Nikon 
>SP with a 35 1.8 Nikkor?.....a "hektor" or a 105 2.5, perhaps the 
>best all around lens EVER?.....what about the SP body?????...Leica 
>didn't successfully motorize their RF cameras  till the M4-2, if you 
>can call that piece of crap a motor......(yeah, I had 2 of 'em)...

You're singing my song, Walt.  In 1973 or so I was the proud owner of an SP
with one of those 35/1.8 Nikkors (as well as a 50/1.4 and an 85/2).  What an
absolutely fabulous combo.  Nothing I tried could approach it until I
acquired an M4 with a set of Summicrons.  I liked the feel of the Leica body
better, but to this day I think that my Nikkor 35 was optically better than
that early Summicron.

Paul