Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Non-Leica lenses for available light
From: Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:28:20 -0800
References: <200111171313.IAA17981@tigercat.nyfir.pwj.com>

Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> 
> > From: Paul Chefurka <chefurka@home.com>
> >
> >   Some Nikkors that *aren't* great available light lenses include the
> > 50/1.4 and 1.2, the 24/2.0 (the one I had was egregiously bad) and the
> > 35/2.0.
> 
> how bad is the 24/2.0?  check out bottom photo of
> http://www.shinozuka-family.com/wtc/wtcindex.html
> note the ghastly highlights near the edges!
> 

We get a lot of Vista Vision plates here at work. In Vista Vision, when
the film is 
run through the camera, it is oriented like in a 35mm still camera
giving you twice
the negative area of a 35mm movie frame. Most of these cameras use Nikon
lenses of
older vintage. Quite often I see lots of vingnetting, softness towards
the corners,
even distortion. When I worked on "Dinosaur" for Disney, they had set up
their
Vista camera to use Leica R-lenses. I remember being pleasantly
surprised at how sharp
and flat the plates were. I pray that they either upgrade to newer Nikon
glass or even
better switch to Leica.



feli
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