Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ed, I recently committed the supreme act of sacrilege and traded an old 50mm Summilux for a new Voigtländer/Cosina 50mm Nokton. Partly because of Erwin's evaluation of the latter compared to the former and partly because I could get a good deal on both ends of the deal. I have also previously owned the 15mm Heliar. Both of these are fine lenses; they may not have the same build quality as the Leica equivalents, but my Nokton is not far behind in this regard. How do they do it? Economies of scale, greater production tolerances, whatever. As Ted said, it does not really matter, as long as we are happy with the results. Having said all this, if Leica ever does come out with a new 50mm Summilux I will most likely buy it. But in the meantime the Nokton is serving me very well. Nathan Edward Mortimer wrote: > I know I'm gonna get a stoning from some of you just for mentioning this but > here goes anyway. > > As we all know Voigtlander are now making M lenses and most reports I have > seen rate them well. Has anyone used or owned one of these lenses? What are > the results like? Build quality? From what I've read they seem to perform > extremely well, but I just cant believe how cheap they are, 24mm @ £270? How > do they do it? I appreciate this topic has probably been discussed before > but as I am relativly new to LUG I wasn't present first time round. :) > > Whats your opinion? > > Regards Edd > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/