Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I read your post on Leica User group and I see that you have experience with Voigtlander lens such as 50mm f1.5 and cosina 25mm f4.0. Do you have any advice on those lens for me? I really want to buy wide angle lens but leica lens are so out of my budget. how is the resolution of the picture and color saturation compare to leica lens? I normally do print at 8x10 size but i also go higher like 11x14 and 16x20. do you have experience with those size of print with Voigtlander lens at all specially 25mm and 50mm lens. I have nikon camera FM2n and yes, i don't like it lens at all. at normal size, 4x6, 5x7 print, it look as normal as leica lens interm of resolution and grain but then when i start to go at 8x10 , 11x14 and 16x20, it starts show a lot of grain as the size goes up meanwhile the leica isn't show that much of grain in 16x20. if you have any info or your own experience please refer me thank you very much for your time Olivier - -----Original Message----- From: Zeissler, Mitch [mailto:mzeissle@gcipoa.gannett.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:47 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] My Noct has finally returned! All... Happy, happy, joy, joy! Just got the Noct back last evening from Leica and it is in like-new condition! The stiff focusing issue was fixed and the optics have been cleaned. I'm planning on taking some snaps with it today. For those who might wonder why I would send off the Noct for servicing: the focusing was so stiff that I was concerned I would eventually damage the lens mount on my M3, as the only way to focus it was to use the camera body as a lever. Focusing by twisting the lens itself was almost impossible. With the culmination of an upcoming M6 purchase, I will now have re-vamped my entire Leica kit. In the past 24 months I have added the Noct, Cosina 25mm f/4.0, Voigtländer 35mm f/1.9, Voigtländer 50mm f/1.5, and the Elmarit 135mm f/2.8. I have gone from the old, slow, mostly uncoated optics that my father-in-law gave me, to modern, fast, multicoated optics. The Leica glow was evident in the earlier lenses I just finished selling on eBay, but so was a lot of flare and other imaging characteristics I did not care for. Speed is another issue; I hate using a tripod for marginal conditions and the faster lenses will help in that arena. However, from this point forward, if I am able to get one additional lens per year, I'll consider myself lucky. Good light! /Mitch Zeissler