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Subject: [Leica] Re: Voigtländer 40/1.4 (was Leica prices)
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Tue Jun 7 16:29:06 2005
References: <ceb1a56505060710195397c841@mail.gmail.com> <BECB3BCC.166FD%mark@rabinergroup.com> <ceb1a56505060713056d4eb4e3@mail.gmail.com>

Check over on PhotoNet Leica forum or the CVUG list. Seems a very popular
addition to to the CV lens lineup.

Scott

Mark Langer wrote:

>I got the CLE body without a lens, and was using my Canon 35/2 on it
>until I got the 28/3.5 Cosina Voigtlander.  I was keeping my eye open
>for either the Leitz or the Minolta 40/2, but thought that the extra
>speed of the 40/1.4 might  be useful.  While the CLE is compact
>compared to my M6, it is pretty darn bulky compared to even a Konica
>Auto S3, to say nothing of the Rollei 35SE.  So if it ain't going to
>win prizes in the compact department, I'm not sure that the bigger
>bulk of the 40/1.4 is going to be a big factor in my thinking, unless
>the camera is unbalanced with that lens.  Doesn't anyone have shooting
>experience with it?
>
>Mark
>
>On 6/7/05, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 6/7/05 10:19 AM, "Mark Langer" <langeratcarleton@gmail.com> typed:
>>
>>    
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>>>As long as we are on the topic of Voigtlander lenses, who has had
>>>experience with the 40/1.4?  I've been wondering if I should get one
>>>to mount on my Minolta CLE.  Anything good or bad that someone can
>>>tell me that might guide my decision?
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Well as long as my name is on the thing and so I'm looking at it right off
>>then let me say that coincidently I'm a new user of the 40 Summicron which
>>I've got on my M6 with a Cosina Voigtl?nder finder and it's about my
>>favorite lens. I use it all the time. More than my 50 and more than my 35.
>>But this lens was invented of course for use with the CL and CLE.
>>It's more or less the standard lens with those cameras.
>>Would look and balance well.
>>
>>The 1.4 is perhaps twice the size. And the CLE and it's use is all about
>>compactness it would sure seem to me.
>>
>>I'd stay with the Leica signature if it was me. Or I was you. Or if you
>>thought like me.
>>There's an abundance of them out there and they go for cheap cheap cheap.
>>And they say "Wetzlar" on them what can I say?
>>
>>There are filter issues but they don't bother me. It's a .75 pitch instead
>>of a .5. Just makes life interesting as far as I go. I took the flimsy
>>rubber shade off and just use an adaptor little metal thing as a shade.
>>I don't get flair. Or Flare.
>>Its the only not "Leica" but "Leitz" lens I use.
>>Some think "Leitz" is more Leica than Leica.
>>
>>
>>Mark Rabiner
>>Photography
>>Portland Oregon
>>http://rabinergroup.com/
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from buzz.hausner at verizon.net (Buzz Hausner) ([Leica] Voigtländer 40/1.4 on a CL/CLE)
In reply to: Message from langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer) ([Leica] Re: Voigtlander 40/1.4 (was Leica prices))
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: Voigtländer 40/1.4 (was Leica prices))
Message from langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer) (Re: [Leica] Re: Voigtländer 40/1.4 (was Leica prices))