Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Old Hassy lens
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:48:57 -0800 (PST)

Personally I don't care too much for the FLE. I cannot
figure why Hasselblad cannot design an internal
mechanism to change the floating elements based on the
focusing distance instead of forcing the photographer
to do it. I don't know about others, I quite often
shoot with this lens handheld, and more often than
not, forgot to adjust the floating after focusing. But
then, I never notice inferior quality afterwards if I
haven't adjusted the float, other than playing games
in my own mind.

- --- Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote:
> At 08:26 AM 2/10/02 -0500, Doug Nygren wrote:
> >The other day I looked at an older 70s vintage 50
> mm Zeiss lens for a
> >Hasselblad.
> >
> >How does this lens compare with the new FLE 50 mm.
> >
> >I use Leica M lenses of older vintage and like
> them, though I know their
> >more recent versions are even better. For example,
> I enjoy my 21 mm M
> >lens though I know the 21 asypherical is even
> better.
> >
> >Does anyone have any experience with the FLE
> lenses? What's it like to
> >have to set the floating element? If one doesn't
> get the distance right,
> >what happens to the image you take? It's clear that
> this lens, let alone
> >the camera itself, is not great for street
> photography.
> 
> Well, I'm not certain a lot of folks on the LUG
> would agree that a lens
> only a quarter of a century old was especially
> "old"!
> 
> The FLE Distagon offers slight but significant
> advantages over the older
> design, but, then, the older design is hardly a
> slouch, either.  It comes
> down to money and how often you use the system.  I
> do not use my Hasselblad
> gear all that often, being a Rolleiflex sort of guy,
> so I'm content with a
> straight 4/50 Distagon.  But, if I used the
> Hasselblad more, I'd upgrade to
> a FLE lens.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
> Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
> 
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