Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > At 07:08 PM 4/13/2007, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >I do have a 35/2.8 LTM Summaron, but I hate to take it out into > rough areas > >of town (that would be everywhere within a 60 mile radius of my > house). It > >is a wonderful lens. Oddly, Puts seems lukewarm on it. I've gotta > stop > >reading reviews and just look at people's images taken with different > >lenses. > > Good heavens! Jeffery, if you're going to take the lens into Areas > of Threat, then spend $50 and get a 2.8/35 Jupiter-12. It is a bit > slow but was the standard against which Canon and Nikon fought to > equal until Bertele trumped them with his Postwar design. > > The Nikon lenses have been out of production since 1960, though NOS > remained available until 1977. The Canon lenses left production > around 1970 though NOS lenses remained for sale into the early > 1980's. The Soviet Jupiter-12 was in production from 1951 until at > least after the fall of the Soviet Union and was made in quantities > much greater than the combined Nikon and Canon runs. The lens is > optically superb (it is at least the equal of the faster Nikon and > Canon lenses, if not their superior) while being most inexpensive. > > For that matter, given your venturing outside the Louisiana Green > Zone, why not pick up a Zorki 4 or FED 5B to reduce your risk to a > total of $85 or so, if that? why don't you just use a disposable ? Steve > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information