Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Favorite screw-mount Leicas and lenses
From: Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:11:56 -0500
References: <v0401170ab64a0d6e948a@[216.67.20.132]>

Going the opposite way:

105mm f/2.5 Nikkor in LTM:

Resistance is futile.  This, I think, is the sharpest LTM lens that I have
ever seen.

Guy Bennett wrote:

> >What are your favorite [ltm] models and lenses and why?
> >
> >Mike
>
> let me throw in my 2 cents on this one. i'll have to forgo the body part of
> the question since i only know one, the iiif, though i hope one day to pick
> up a black iiib...
>
> as for sm lenses, the ones that i use most are:
>
> - summaron 35/3.5
> - skopar 25/4
>
> 1. both are marvelously compact - even with a lens hood, they're small, and
> for me that's part of the charm of using a screw mount leica: microsizitude
> coupled with lightweightability.
>
> 2. they're relatively inexpensive. both can be had for less than $400usd
> (and that includes a very good finder with skopar).
>
> 3. they're sharp, and produce images that jump off the negs and tickle your
> eyeballs, so crisp they are.
>
> though i sing the praises of these lenses, all is not exactly as i'd have
> it - i wish they both were faster, and i'd really like the skopar to be rf
> coupled. i frequently shoot indoors in low light, and often use both lenses
> 'wide open.' i'm never sure i'm going to get the shot with the skopar since
> i have to guesstimate the distance, and i'm frequently wrong on that
> account.
>
> guy

In reply to: Message from Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net> (Re: [Leica] Favorite screw-mount Leicas and lenses)