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Subject: [Leica] Any opinions/experience with the Zeiss 4/18mm?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri Nov 21 11:05:35 2008
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>> Nathan,
>>
>> It will be interesting to see how going back to an M will change your
>> photography!  Enjoy.
>> Bid of advice:  buy the 15 CV and take the money you saved and get  
>> some golf
>> clubs; after all you live on a course.
>>
>> Leo (who was playing in wind so stiff today that the ball kept  
>> blowing the
>> ball off the tee)

or consider the CV 12mm...a   wonderful lens... and good luck  
Nathan...Steve




>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu 
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> Since this is a Leica list, I expect people will be pleased to  
>>> learn that I
>>> have decided that M8 prices have fallen sufficiently to buy one  
>>> some time
>>> during the next few months. So I am thinking of lenses to use with  
>>> it.
>>> Clearly, a 35mm will serve as a standard lens, but what to use for  
>>> wide
>>> angle? The various 21mm offerings are not wide enough for me; they  
>>> translate
>>> into 28mm in film terms, and that is a focal length I never got  
>>> comfortable
>>> with. To me, it is neither fish nor fowl: not wide enough to  
>>> really capture
>>> the big expanse but too wide to use for, say, se?orita photos,  
>>> without
>>> getting so close that you get slapped in the face.
>>>
>>> Leica's own WATE or whatever is called is too expensive and I have  
>>> no need
>>> for all 3 focal lengths. The 15mm lenses from Voigtlander and  
>>> Zeiss are not
>>> rangefinder coupled. I know that they have great DOF so focusing  
>>> is not
>>> critical, but still I want rangefinder coupling.
>>>
>>> From what I see out there, the 4/18mm Zeiss M lens seems to fit  
>>> the bill,
>>> both in terms of focal length (corresponds to 24mm, one of my  
>>> favorite focal
>>> lengths when I was shooting film) and in terms of reasonable price  
>>> (KEH has
>>> one at the moment for just under $1000). But is it any good? I  
>>> have read
>>> Erwin's write up on the ZM lenses, and it is quite positive. But  
>>> when he
>>> wrote it, he did not have this particular lens.
>>>
>>> Anybody out there using the 18mm?
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>>
>>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Any opinions/experience with the Zeiss 4/18mm?)
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