Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh yes, the Zeiss 120mm macros for Contax and Hasselblad are also astounding quality. You obviously bow to many Gods! On 31/3/03 2:48 am, "Slobodan Dimitrov" <sld@earthlink.net> wrote: > Mind you, I'm a Zeiss_and_S/K fanatic when it comes to my 120. > Slobodan Dimitrov > > > Simon Lamb wrote: >> >> Slobodan >> >> In the nicest possible way - you need help!.... >> >> ....and the 100mm f/2.8 Zeiss Makro Sonnar gives the same feeling. >> >> Simon >> >> On 30/3/03 7:09 pm, "Slobodan Dimitrov" <sld@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> The thing about Leica chromes and negs, is their cathedral effect. No >>> other optic comes close, until we go to the realm of the monumental 120. >>> By that I mean the physiological response to the viewing experience of >>> the hanging neg. strip, or chromes on a light table. One's jaw goes a >>> little slack and the eyes open up just a bit, and one's head goes up and >>> down digesting the manifested visual epiphany. >>> I can not, try as I might, after all these years, to be indifferent and >>> complacent to a hanging strip of Leica generated images. >>> Slobodan Dimitrov >>> >>> >>> Simon Lamb wrote: >>>> >>>> Ed >>>> >>>> I take it you mean that nothing 'Leica' comes close. There are other >>>> lenses >>>> out there that come very close indeed. >>>> >>>> Simon >>>> >>>> On 30/3/03 3:27 am, "Edward Caliguri" <caliguri@rcn.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> SNIP When I shoot close up (down to 1:1), for me nothing comes close to >>>> the >>>> 100 Apo Macro R lens. >>>> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html