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Subject: [Leica] Do I want a 35 'lux?
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon May 15 15:50:14 2006
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Marc,
You could be correct that I had a bad sample.  Stopped down by F4 it was
quite good but all of my shots at 1.4 to 2 were soft.  At this point I would
not go back to the old formula as the new one is so good.

Thanks for your comments.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 5/15/06, Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> wrote:
>
> At 06:15 PM 5/15/06 -0400, Don Dory wrote:
>
> >You want either the ASPH Summicron or Summilux or the new Zeiss offering.
> >The earlier 35 Summilux was just plain soft at 1.4 plus flared like crazy
> >wide open.
>
> Don
>
> You've stated this a number of times.  I've owned three of these lenses
> and
> have shot with four of them, and only one had flare problems.  I suspect
> that you might want to try a few more examples.  SOME did suffer from
> flare
> but, in my own experience, most did not do so.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
>
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