Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's picture of Week 35
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:15:35 -0500

> Well, before we place the Summilux 50 on two high a pedestal, let's
> remember that Erwin also rates the Cosina 50 1.5 as sharper than the
> Summilux...;-)

B.D.

I am not going to argue with you on that point for the reason that all these
subtleties with different lens are way over my head, except of all the 50s I
have used the 50/1.4 seems to please me the most. So, I am not knocking the
Noctilux or the Cosina, just making a comment I saw in Erwin's newsletter
about the Noct which is on a pedestal far more than the Summilux will ever
be.

sl
>
>
>
> Steve LeHuray wrote:
>>
>> >><Snip>
>> >>
>> >> BTW, did anybody notice in Erwin's Newsletter today, he ranks the Summilux
>> >> 50/1.4 better than the Noctilux under all circumstances.
>> >>
>> >> sl
>> >
>> > I think the Noctilux might still win out at F1!
>> >
>> > but I'd be surprised Erwin saying the Summilux beating out the Noctilux in
>> stray
>> > artifacts from off camera and on camera light sources as this was what the
>> > Noctilux was specifically designed to do as a low light night lens while
the
>> > Summilux was of course designed for general purposes.
>> >
>> >
>> > Mark Rabiner
>> >
>> > Portland, Oregon
>> > USA
>> >
>> > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
>> >
>> Maybe, except at 1.4 you can say go from a 60th to a 30th to get the same
>> shot the Noct gets at 1.0, and 1.4 is better than 1.0.
>>
>> sl
>

Replies: Reply from Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> (Re: [Leica] Nathan's picture of Week 35)