Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Autofocus and 21mm F4 Color-Skopar
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 14:07:57 -0500

>>Have fun you guys with your fake Color-Skopars. (My first lens was a real one)
>>who'd EVER want to ever spend $2000 on a lens? Not ME! But i do anyway!
>>In my 20's and 30's I'd save for half a year for a new Nikon lens.
>>Now the anti is up and I'm in my 40's and 50's and i save up for half a
>>year for
>>a new Leica lens.
>>The point is the quality of my images have gone up as my hair falls out and my
>>waistline expands.
>>I could be trading fake Skopars back and forth like trading cards but
>>what's the point?
>>I say
>>SAVE UP THE MONEY and get Leica quality.
>>IMO the GLASS is more important than the camera.
>>IT'S THE GLASS THAT COUNTS.
>>That's what Leica is all about.
>>Cheap glass is everywhere. Leave it off your Leica.
>>
>>Mark Rabiner
>
>
> Hey Mark,
>
> I *do* have the Leica glass - the Cosina 25 I just sold was used on my
> IIIf. I have - and use - the Leica 24 on the M6.
>
> Q: Why have two lenses in more or less the same focal length?
> A: The 24 Elmarit ASPH is too goddam big for a IIIf!
>
> Q: Why buy the Cosina 21 when the Leica 21 is available?
> A: The 21 Elmarit ASPH is too goddam big for a IIIf!
>
> Q: Why not just buy the Leica 21 and use it on the M6?
> A: The 24 Elmarit ASPH won't let me!
>
> Guy

Since ya'll are talking 21mm I have been thinking about getting a Kobalux
21/2.8, about $600 from Adorama with finder and M adaptor. Anybody used this
lens?

Steve
Annapolis