Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> If I was your salesperson, I'd push the 35mm f/1.4 > if but for the wonderful 35mm focal image composition > and "feel", and, to me, more universal application ... > Plus it's surely much easier to handle at full aperture > for most people . [snip] > you'd get more mileage out of a 35mm Summicron > as "universal" lens and am convinced most other > photographers also would ... > > A J Q I agree with André. As a universal, high-speed, do-it-all normal lens, the 35mm Summilux ASPH would be far and away the most preferable. It has at least one serious advantage over the Noct--its compact size, low weight, and great handling. The Noct makes the M6 into a heavy and fairly unweildy camera. One of my best friends is a dedicated low-available-light shooter and uses the 50mm focal length almost exclusively. He won't get a Noct just because it's to much of a beast. I also don't know where y'all are shooting that you _need_ lenses of such high speed. Tina, yes; Ted, okay; but even in low-level indoor lighting and in the city at night I rarely shoot even an f/2 lens wide open with E.I. 200 film. This is not a criticism, just an observation: have you ever noticed how much enthusiasm there is on this list for films of very high speed, lenses of very high speed, flash...and tripods! A person could pick any one of the four and get by in 98% of the low-light situations encountered in general photography, I'd say. (I sometimes get a vision of an earnest Lugger with an M6 and Noct mounted on a heavy tripod, with a big potato-masher flash, using T-Max P3200 film pushed to E.I. 1600 <g>.) With most things in photography, sensible compromises work best. Pick a fast enough film, a fast enough lens, and then reserve flash or tripod for when they're really needed. - --Mike