[Leica] Looking for a 100 interested in a screwmount current 50/2.8

[clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni)]

On Jan 7, 2006, at 8:45 PM, Don Dory wrote:

> John,
> I know that you want to stay Leica, but find a good Nikkor 50 F1.4 
> from a
> NIcca or a clean postwar Sonnar 50mm 1.5 in LTM.  Very high image 
> quality,
> very little flare if clean, good speed even with the light fall off in 
> the
> corners and pretty cheap.  If you feel lucky then buy two or three of 
> the
> Russian clones and one of them at least will be as good as the Zeiss
> variant.
>
> In the thirties through the early sixties the Sonnar design was king 
> and it
> is still very, very good indeed.
>
> A deal killer is that focus is just under 1 meter.

Some of the Nikkors focus down to 18 inches...they just don't RF couple 
:)

CZ
Picky, NC