Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My only experience with the first version was handling one in a store. I thought the movement of the focusing ring very rough in the middle of the range. It felt like someone had put a handful of sand in the mechanism before buttoning everything up. Mine is very smooth. The focusing ring is uniformly smooth across the entire range. The aperture ring snaps into the detents like my 35/2, which is saying a lot. The focal length ring feels a bit funky because so much happens when the ring is turned. At the ends (35 & 28) it seems to take an extra little motion to make the frame lines pop up but if I turn to the stop everything is fine, very positive. The 50mm position snaps home. My overall impression is that this is a necessary improvement to the first model. I think my first efforts will be to get used to handling it as well as running some tests to verify focusing accuracy. The whole thing seems Rube Goldberg-ish enough for me to want emperical confirmation that it really does work. >>I picked up my newest lens Saturday, a second-model Tri-Elmar. For those >>of you who have them, do you have any words of wisdom, other than "just go >>out and use it"? > >Have you compared it to the first version? If so. what are your >thoughts? I've got a second-version one on order as well, but no >delivery date yet. > >Paul Chefurka > > > Dave Richards Littleton, Colorado, USA dprichards@qwest.net