Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., Jeffery is not going to be happy with you ;-) Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D. Colen Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:28 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Cosina/Voigtlaender Nokton 50mm f1.5 Well, in most cases I've only owned one 50 per camera system. On 9/5/06 4:04 PM, "Scott McLoughlin" <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > Maybe a logic like this applies. If you're only gonna have one > 50mm RF lens, you naturally want something capable but you're > on a budget, the Nokton 50 should be a great candidate - for > all the virtues of this lens already enumerated (which I won't > repeat) and for it's relatively modest price. > > Maybe @ f1.5 it can be bested by several other pricier lenses, > but it performs really well a stop down, plus the f1.5 option is > there should one need it. > > Of course, no one's going to just have only one 50mm lens, but > that's beside the point :-) > > Scott >