Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 2/16/02 7:17:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, ericm@pobox.com writes: > >What do you guys think ? I only want to keep one. > > If you don't absolutely need money from the sale immediately, I'd choose one > and put the other into storage. Don't let yourself near it. > > Do you find yourself wishing you could use it after a while? That will be > your answer. > > > Eric Eric's suggestion makes perfect sense. Before I read it I was going to suggest this: ask yourself what, if any, difference DO YOU SEE in images taken with both lenses. On the optical test bench, the ASPH is superior, especially wide-open. But if you shoot mostly in flare-free situations and don't use f/2 most of the time, for your usage, the size and weight of the pre-ASPH might be better. FWIW, I've just got a couple of 35/2,8 Summarons that I'm starting to test/use, on real, live film. For what I do, I don't often need speed and when I do, it's the Summilux. I know this lens to be of high-resolution (it was tested many years ago by Donb Goldberg's father, Norm, at Modern Photography at 80+ lp/mm) and I have a notion that it will prove to be of high contrast since it has only six elements and eight air/glass surfaces Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html