Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark I thought that I could understand the English language fairly well, but I guess I cannot quite get it all. Jerry Mark Rabiner wrote: > Feli di Giorgio wrote: > > > > No, I didn't do a direct comparison shoot out. I don't shoot newspapers > > with my lenses. > > It's a judgment call from looking at a few prints and scans. > > > > feli > > > Feli if you're wondering why i got just a tad testy it's because it felt > wrong to me not in a small way… > > Here is out very expensive special glass being… > > The fact that i happen to be at odds with what is being said is not the point. > Or I try not to have it be. > > I'm at odds with a DR. being subtly trashed with no back up. > Plenty of people thing the DR. is the cat's pajamas and would not find > this credible. > > I'm at adds with Summicrons being considered soft by everyone and in > comparison to the Noct stopped down not that great. > > I found both the Summicron during the same test and the Noct at F 11 to > be as good as it gets. My eyeball, loupe and slide projector lens gets. > F 1000th of a sec at F11 or 500th or F8 sometimes. > > But i don't like the way it was tossed out there like it was a given. I > think people know you area a Leica expert and would take it too quickly > to heart. The gear suffers. Yes i do get carried away. The gear's rep. > suffer's. hows that folks. > Its straing how an expert on one part of a fiewlds will have his openion > reverred in other not so related sections. > A collector vs a shooter as in here. > Would a very very good collector know how well these things really > preform more than an average shooter? > > I believe my opinion on the "Noct stopped" is backed up by Ted, Erwin > and others fairly handy to us who can confirm or deny it. > > This to me is such an impressive statement: > > I really need to get a lens release button guard for my M2. With the > > extra weight of the Noct a good accidental tap on the button WILL > > release the lens! It's not a problem on my M6TTL, because of the > > guard, but I prefer the more accurate 50 framelines of the M2. > > I think it helps to know what you've got even if you're not getting paid > to do it. > Does one get so much one doesn't care. I think so. That has happened to > me and happens now. > I just feel better the more accurate and "scientific" I am about > evaluating and comparing stuff. > So I just know I'm not passing off gasps. > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > 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