Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan wrote: > > The irony is that I used to just go out with the M6 and 50/2, and my hit > > rate with that one camera, one lens kit was better than I'm getting now. > > And the < $1k 50 summicron is a real sleeper lens: produces images that > > rival both of the others (each > $2.5k)! For my style of shooting, you'd be > > hard pressed to do better than the 50 cron. > I agree completely. My 50 cron gets about 90% of the usage with the 90 coming in a distant third. I don't know if I've used the 35 since I got the 50... I think right now my ideal set up would be my 50 cron, a noctilux, and a new 50 cron for my IIIf... I use a pentax rig occasionally. Guess which lens I use... that's right, 50mm f1.4... I am constantly amazed at how many truly wonderful 50mm lenses there are out there. My 50mm summicron-m is certainly the best overall 50 I've ever used, but my Pentax 50mm f1.4 is great. specially since it cost me $10! I love how my Jupiter-3 (a sonnar rip off) renders pictures, and my old Konica I rangefinder has a lovely collapsible 50mm (I'm guessing its a Tessar design). I remember looking at one of my professors (Janice Levy, anyone heard of her?) pictures in college. I thought they were beautiful. Luminous, fairly fine grained, and of course the picture itself was wonderful. I knew that she shot 35mm exclusively. I asked her what her film and developer was. "Canon 50mm FD f1.4, Tri-x in D-76 1:1". Huh? I shot tri-x and processed it 1:1 in D-76 too, except my stuff looked pretty bad in comparison. The thing that really stumped me was that I had a better lens, a 28-80 takumar zoom...:-) Ah youth... Isaac