Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like my 25mm f/4 Snapshot Skopar from Cosina Voigtl?nder. Its small and compact and sharp as heck; and I love guess focusing it and coming out on the money every time. One of its secrets is its simplicity and lack of unnecessarily high speed. Or non lack of necessary slow speed. Now gone the way of the dodo like many good things in life. Its parked on my Bessa L. A picture of the flatiron building I shot with this combination I carry with me wherever I go. To the bathroom. To the movies When I take the garbage out. ... mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Philip Forrest <photo.forrest@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:09:00 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Favorite Non-Leica-Leica Lens? > > 1st formulation Nikkor 10.5 cm f/2.5 in Leica thread mount. I would > probably forsake all other lenses before this one, save for my DR > Summicron perhaps (but that's a Leica lens...) > I do love my Canon 50mm f/1.4, but it's just a fast 50mm lens with a > lot of contrast. Closest I'll get to a Noctilux before my college loans > are paid off I'm sure. > I love selective focus and the Nikkor does it so well at f/2.5. > > Phil Forrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information