Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: CV wides -- an object lesson
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Tue Nov 29 18:06:05 2005
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I only had to stop the 21A down one stop for it to start singing. The  
24A sings nicely wide open.

John Collier

On 29-Nov-05, at 6:59 PM, feli wrote:

> I have the VC 4/21. You have to stop it down to about f11 to really  
> make it sing.
> It lacks 'sparkle' below that.
>
> I shot a lot of K64 with mine and the color was very good. Contrast  
> pops nicely,
> when you stop it down. Af f4 it's a little muddy.
>
> That said it's one heck of a bargain for the price. They even  
> include a bright line finder.