Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I understand about the L glass (canon) I use their L zooms and get excellent results with enlargements of 16x20" with 400 asa color neg. film. BTW the new Leica 15 2.8 is in the $4-5000 range. The canon 14 2.8 selling in the 2-2500 range-can get two for that difference. But I still find few that will compete with the OLE 21/f4 I have on the R-8. Cheers W The die hards will love the message! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Felix Lopez de Maturana" <fmaturana@euskalnet.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] full time photogs > <Steve, True a lot of us use Canon and Nikon gear- bodies are about the same > <price when you add the motor to the R8, but the Leica glass (new) is about > <double and some of the zooms are 3-4 times that of the other brands. There > <are a few of the Canon wide angles that are very close to the Leica glass > <but very few. > > Wilber > > I can think only in the Canon EF 14mm f1:2.8 L. I own and use this lens with > my EOS 1V and its price was on level with Leica glasses. I cannot speak > about comparative quality as I have not used the new Elmar 15mm f1:2.8 made > by Schneider, so I do not know if it is worse or not. My Voigtländer 12mm > f1:5.6 used in a Leica M6 has more vignetting and not more sharpness than > the Canon. I'm using regularly Leica lenses and I find that Canon L lenses > are not very far behind. By the way and speaking about prices you can see, > right now, in Ebay a Nikkor AIS 13mm f1:5.6 whose "buy it now" is $13.7K. I > use the equivalent AIS 15mm f1:3.5 and it is not better than Canon nor > Voigtländer so you can see price is not always produced by the quality but > other factors not always referring to a rational approaching. > > Kind regards > > Felix > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html