Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you made your point. That film with that lens is a perfect match. Very nice. Len On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > I recently bought a used Nikkor 50/1.4 S.C in Leica Thread Mount. > It still > had the clear glass filter on the front and there were no cleaning > marks. I > wasn't expecting *that* much for such an old, fast lens, but it is > surprisingly good. These are from a quick test roll shot yesterday. > Dante > Stella's site said that the lens does well at large apertures, so I > shot > these at f/2.8. > > http://www.400tx.com/files/Technical/Nikkor1.html > http://www.400tx.com/files/Technical/Nikkor2.html > http://www.400tx.com/files/Technical/Nikkor3.html > > Clicking on the image will take you back and forth between the > image and an > enlarged area of the image. No sharpening, unsharp mask, or other > fiddling > around other than spoting some dust spots on image 1. > > I have pretty good specimens of Leica's 50/1.5 Summarit and Zeiss' > 50/1.5 > Sonnar from the same general time period. I think the Nikkor has > them both > whipped. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > http://400tx.blogspot.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information