Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jeffery. I've had and used the f4 25 Skopar. A very neat package but in my own experience nothing like the performance of the Leica glass. About one tenth of the Leica price, of course. Maybe I didn't give it a fair hearing. There is a new, coupled version on the way, same glass , I think, but considerably dearer. The ZI certainly I'd consider for this application. Completely invisible here with an apparently disinterested distributor in Australia. If I bought that one I'd certainly import it. The others, I've never seen. Anyhoo, first I'd need an M8 to have the problem! Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] ZI 25mm on M8 There are some alternatives... In the 21mm length, we have: Cosina Voigtl?nder Zeiss Ikon Kobalux Hexanon (the 21-35) Of these, the CV and Kobalux are most affordable. The Zeiss might be the best bang for the buck. But I've gotten some very nice images from the Kobalux. Regrettably, the US supplier (Dante Stella) has no more of them. Jeffery Smith -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] ZI 25mm on M8 Thanks Jeffery. I feel confident that an external 35 would be very close. I don't think that the lines are desperately accurate, anyway, are they? Danged if I can compose that accurately. I always have to crop off about 5% due to the proportions of an A4 print, anyway. That and adjust for an apparent one degree tilt that using my left, master eye induces! I guess a quick test with the 28 lines brought up in the M8 finder would tell you how close it is to that one. It does highlight one issue for me with the M8, though. I do know that this isn't new, of course. Just to achieve my favourite travel FoV, the 28, I'd have to fund the 21. Or the new T-E wide. And THAT one costs about AUD 5,500 here (without the finder, I think). Let's see, right now we have our best exchange rate for a long time. 1x M8 plus the T-E wide (no finder, I think) just about exactly USD 10,000. Yikes. Still I guess the 28 would act as a nice 35ish standard, and the 50 asph ought make a good portrait lens. I'm going to stop thinking about this right now. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] ZI 25mm on M8 I did this in Excel a week or so ago. 35mm M8 15 20 21 28 25 33 28 37 35 47 40 53 43 57 50 67 75 100 80 106 85 113 90 120 So, the 25 would be an odd-ball for which there are no external finders. In a pinch, I'd probably use a 35 finder a realize that it was a bit wider in reality. Jeffery Smith -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] ZI 25mm on M8 Jeffery, I've read and marvelled over those quoted figures from Zeiss as well. Not likely to see this sort of resolution in any normal situation, let alone print, though! Still I've read nothing but positive reviews on this lens. Don't know that I would be keen to take a file to it for frame-line reasons, however. An external finder seems a little more civilised solution. What should it be on the M8, very close to the FoV of a 35 on an M6? Hasn't Tom A got this lens and an M8? I'm sure that he can fill us in. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] ZI 25mm on M8 As I recall, the Zeiss Biogon T* 2.8/25mm broke some sort of record for sharpness (400 lines per mm?). That seems incredible, considering that there are only 1000 micrometers in a millimeter. Does that mean it can resolve an object the size of a red blood cell? Jeffery Smith -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] ZI 25mm on M8 It has been, so far, my standard lens. Amazing lens. Great value (in the Leica scheme of things) Eric On 3/22/07, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: > Has anyone used the Zeiss Ikon 25mm 2.8 lens on the M8? > Does it pull up the correct ie. 24mm frame lines ? > thank you, > Steve