[Leica] New Leica 28mm 2.8 ASPH lens

[datamaster at northcoastphotos.com (Gary Todoroff)]

Same here re wide angle M lenses - my favorite combo was the 35/2 on 
an M6 and  I preferred an M3 for the 50/1.4 Shot the 21 and 15 
Voightlander more often than the 90. Also, like you, Ted, I sold the 
135 not only because it felt awkward but also because the f2.8 
version never seemed to take a sharp photo for me at any f-stop or 
shutter speed.

Biggest problem for me with the digital M is that its smaller sensor 
size will make longer lenses out of the wide-angles. That's why the 
first lens I got for my Olympus E-330 was their incredible 7-14mm/4 
zoom - equiv to 14-28mm. Now the best Leica shooting I do is with 
that lens and the Olympus!

With the FourThirds adapter, my Leica APO 70-180/2.8 also makes an 
incredible telephoto on the E-330. Plan to keep that lens. But 
Olympus did it right. Sad to say, I've given up holding my breath for 
Leica. Creatively, Olympus is way more like Leica than Leica has been 
for the last 25 years. Leica used to be all about a "system" of 
creative camera tools. The system approach offered by the E-330 is in 
keeping with what used to be the best of Leica. Alas, no more.

Gary Todoroff
(Tree LUGger)


At 07:38 PM 09/06/06, you wrote:
>B. D. Colen said:
>Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica 28mm 2.8 ASPH lens
>
>
>>Longer lenses on Ms? Never, ever, in my most deluded moment thought 
>>or  >said that.:-) I see the M as a 21-50 camera, with the option 
>>in desperation of
>>using a  90.<<<
>
>Hi B.D.,
>Me too! I've almost stopped using the 90 because I felt I never got 
>the pictrue I wanted that I seemed to always be successful when 
>using an 80mm or 90 on the R camera's.
>
>A book project back in the 70's required I do a fair amount of 
>shooting in board room meetings and the only way I could get trhe 
>reach was to use a longer lens. :-( But to maintain my "silence" of 
>the M I couldn't use the R camera's. So I bought the 135mm for the 
>M, used it and as soon as the shoot was over I sold the lens for 
>next to nothing just to get rid of it.
>
>I hated every minute I had it on camera and in hand even though it 
>cut beautiful negatives. It's totally not what using an M camera is 
>about! Quick, silent and basically unobtrusive, certainly if one is 
>quick in using it.
>
>I'd say the bulk of shooting with a long M lens is the Noctilux 50mm. :-)
>
>ted
>
>
>
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