Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/05

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Subject: [Leica] Cosina/Voigtlaender Nokton 50mm f1.5
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Sep 5 17:36:38 2006

Maybe that's because *I own* all of the other 50's. ;-)

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of G
Hopkinson
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:19 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Cosina/Voigtlaender Nokton 50mm f1.5


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
> 



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Replies: Reply from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Cosina/Voigtlaender Nokton 50mm f1.5)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Cosina/Voigtlaender Nokton 50mm f1.5)