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Subject: [Leica] Which 35mm 'cron or 'lux?
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Feb 11 06:57:11 2005
 
Working without a lens shade is a bit like driving at night without
headlights - you may well survive the experience; but you may not.

The 35 asph 1.4 is indeed flare-proof, or as close to it as one can
come. But it is not damage proof. And a lens shade will almost always
take a whack better than a front element or edge of the lens. 

Enough of this idiocy about the "compactness" etc. - the 35 1.4 asph is,
like virtually every other Leica M lens new or old, virtually minute in
comparison to any SLR versions of similar lenses. What does anyone think
not using a shade and making the lens "more compact" will do to improve
their photography?

(Shaking head in bewilderment)



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
William G. Lamb, III
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:57 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Which 35mm 'cron or 'lux? 



John,

NOW, you tell me! :-) Good thing I'm broke...

BTW, Congrats on your replacement  lens. Mine was a Christmas present to

myself and it is outstanding. I can see why Irwin flipped over it. If
it's 
any consolation, only five 50 ASPH's have come into North America since
the 
Christmas holidays in Germany. A friend of mine just got one of the
other 
four. These things must be hard to make!
<http://www.leica-camera.com/discus_e/messages/11/111853.html?1108087277
>

Best Regards,

William

At 06:23 PM 02/10/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>For many years I have not use the shade on my 35/1.4A. I noticed in 
>video
>of DAH (NG photog) working that he also did not use a use the shade. I 
>figured if he was happy with the results I should give it a try. I did
and 
>it is a very flare proof piece of glass.
>
>Without the shade the 35/1.4A is very compact. Give it  a try, you 
>might
>like it.
>
>John Collier


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