Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner writes in part: > > Size and balance are also big criteria for thinking about the new one over > the old one Frank! > And the idea and result of shooting with the latest of Leica optics vs. an > optic which although not having what you'd call an "old fashioned" > look"with extra heapings of Leica glow" but something with some of > that resonance. > Heck when it first came out it said "Leitz" on it. > > The current 75 1.4 is a bit of a monster. > It would not go over well to redesign it with Aspherics making it more > compact and correcting whatever "issues" it might actually have as its > accused of having one or two. > So another type of 75 is in order. A non high-speed type. > But in this case not low speed either. > I'm with Mark on this one. I'd take the smaller 75/2 over the Summilux any day and use 1600 iso film to allow non-flash work in low light. The Summilux has a very shallow DOF wide open, is heavy and physically quite large (think Noctilux). Plus its not every day that Leica produces a lens that they label APO and ASPH! Regards, Greg