Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Message: 7 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:06:56 -0600 From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> Subject: [Leica] Nikkor 50/1.4 LTM To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Message-ID: <000101c737fe$65f2a490$f96d0e44@GATEWAY> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" One of you asked about this lens last week. I took it out yesterday and shot with some Acros. My initial impressions looking at the TIF scans is that this lens is the *sharpest old, fast 50mm lens* in my collection. Beats the 50/1.5 Summarit and the 50/1.5 Sonnar. If it is still available, grab it. My results look so good, I doubt that I will send it out to have the inside dust removed. If it ain't broke, don't CLA it, I always say. ;-) Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com http://400tx.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Jeffery. High praise indeed! Well deserved I think. When I bought my 50mm Nikkor in the 1970s I was surprised to find a Nikkor lens on a Canon body. At the time I had no idea that Nikon had ever made any LTM lenses. I remember thinking the combination was a bit odd. I was also "disappointed" that the 50mm lens had not been made by Canon. I am so glad that I was never tempted to swap it for the "correct" lens to mate with the Canon body. I really must use this lens more often. It ain't broke for sure. All the best, Wayne