Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<Hi Mark...Well, the 15mm lens is almost 5,000 bucks. Must either be a <tremendously fabulous piece of glass, or Leica thinks they will sell only a <few of them, or both. There really comes a time when the cost of using <Leica lenses is prohibitively expensive. I know all about used items, and <many times such items are fine. Nevertheless, hard to justify sometimes. <Have you used the 12 or 15mm from Voightlander on your M Mark? Wonder how <inferior the lens really is at hundreds/thousands less. Well, I am a user of the Voigtländer 12mm with a M6 and is a nice lens, with the normal problems you can get with so wide lenses: strong vignetting, horrible point of view if you lose the strict horizontal and not so open lens: 5,6. But I can speak about "my" experience with other wide lenses. The best, again my opinion, is Carl Zeis Hologon which can be found in M mount, horrible price in Ebay, and can be used, at a rather moderated one as I do, in a Contax G. The filter for avoiding vignetting is a must in some kind of pics but the lens is really sharp; on the other side is aperture fixed f1:8. I use too, two more extreme wides, Nikkor 15mm f1:3,5 that is trully sharp after two stops but has a huge flare and severe vignetting too. I never found an sensibly affordable Nikkor 13mm. The Canon 14mm f1:2,8 EF L is, again IMHO, a little bit less sharp than Nikkor, but overall is the best one as it's a trully usable 2,8 lens with nice AF, with my EOS 1V you see what you get, and is the less prone to flare in vignetting. For M users both Voigtländer lenses are great. Hologon for M3 is a madness unless you are a collector and, up to now, Canon is the best choice for SLR users ( I don't know Carl Zeiss 15mm for Contax and R Leica that surely may be at same leve or probably eve better, I'm speaking honestly about tha gear I own). For sure the new Schneider lens has to be the best. Does it worth? This question has to be replied for every user. If I get a R for sure I'll get one. But not for the moment. Kind regards and happy Xmas. Félix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html