Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Tom A told me to wait for the upcoming Cosina/Voigtländer 21 mm. The >Adorama/etc. has tested extremely well, only slightly inferior to >the Elmarit ASPH. >All the best! I have got the Cosina/Voigtländer 15 mm ASPH and an old non ASPH Leitz Elmarit-M 21mm that I bought used from a LUGger. I am aware of the raving test reports the Voigländer lens got in just about every magazine, but it does not come close to the old Leitz 21mm in real life. The fine details just are not there. If the 15 mm Voigländer is an indication of what the 21 mm Voigländer will be, then I can only advise you to get get a used Elmairt - even if it is more expensive. And even if Voigländer is ASPH and Leitz is not. One other piece of advice: if you have a set of non-ASPH lenses, do not get yourself an ASPH Leitz lens. It will cost you a fortune! Not for that first lens, no, for all the ASPH ones you fell you need to buy to replace your non-ASPH ones. Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France