Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Len; it was real fun doing those tests - I'm working on a second VF article of tests done by Optikos of the 50/2 DR Summicron, the 60/2,8 Macro-Elmarit and - ta-da - the Alpa Kern 50/1,9 Macro-Switar. Go ahead and buy a 35/2,8 Summaron, you won't regret it. Even at $600.-850.US they are lots less expensive than new Leica lenses and they will give you stunnung results and still continue to serve for decades. Make sure you get one whose optical and mechanical functions are flawless - don't worry about cosmetics so long as they don't suggest a lens that has been used hard. And I would limit my search to lenses above ser # 19xxxxx; somewhere around there Leitz improved the coating of all of their lenses. We read about it mostly with respect to the contemporary 50/2 Summicrons. But I believe they did it across their lens lines. It is even worth sending a lens to Don Goldberg or John Van Stelten for one of them to check and CLA - if necessary. I've sent lenses to each of them and had them returned to me with the comment: "checked out fine" and a very nominal charge + mailing. Good luck, Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Taupier" <len-001@verizon.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] M-lenses on M8 - A Question > Seth, > > Your review in VF Vol 37 No 4 is very impressive. It's probably the > most comprehension review of any lens I've ever seen. After you > mentioned the 2.8 Summaron I went searching the web for it. Yup it's > gotten up there in price. I wish I had one as that generation of > Leica lenses give me the look I really like. > > Len > > > On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Seth Rosner wrote: > >> Greg, it is why eBay prices for the 35/2,8 Summaron have risen >> recently. The 3/4 sensor eliminates the corner fall-off in both >> resolution and contrast and reduces to a hardly perceptible minimum >> this lens' field curvature. Not owning an M8 (yet) I cannot confirm >> my opinon that this lens will now outperform the 35 Summicrons >> right up until the ASPH version while preserving the well-known >> Leica look of the period. The legend that this lens lacks contrast >> is simply untrue. And stopped down to 5,6, it is not too far from >> the ASPH version. See VIEWFINDER Vol 37 No 4, pp 39-40. >> >> Seth >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lorenzo" >> <gregj_lorenzo@hotmail.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group LUG" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:50 PM >> Subject: RE: [Leica] M-lenses on M8 - A Question >> >> >> >> The 35 I'd use would have to have the right look (for me). This >> probably means not the latest version of Leica's current 35mm lens >> line. >> >> Greg Lorenzo >> Calgary, Canada> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:44:52 -0500> Subject: >> Re: [Leica] M-lenses on M8 - A Question> From: >> mark@rabinergroup.com> To: lug@leica-users.org> > If you're used to >> 50's then with an M8 I'd find a nice 35 to have be your> favorite >> lens.> 35 * 1.33> = 46.55> > > A 50 gives you 65. Not so much an >> "all around" lens.> > > > mark@rabinergroup.com> Mark William >> Rabiner> > > > > From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@uwm.edu>> > Reply- >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>> > Date: Tue, 9 Dec >> 2008 23:25:52 -0600 (CST)> > To: lug <lug@leica-users.org>> > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] M-lenses on M8 - A Question> > > > Original >> Message:> >> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:52:43 -0500> >> From: Leonard >> Taupier <len-001@verizon.net>> > > >> The 50mm collapsible >> Summicron has absolutely no problem when> >> collapsed on the M8 >> body. The clearance from the end of the collapsed> >> mount to the >> M8 shutter is about 1/2". I don't know about the 90mm> >> Elmar. >> But if you have the lens just measure the distance from the> >> >> mount to the end of the collapsed lens. The M8 flange to shutter> >> >> distance is about 31/32". If the collapsed lens is 3/4" or >> greater> >> from mount to end I probably would not collapse it when >> on the M8. In> >> any case I have a few collapsible lenses with >> adequate clearance but> >> always keep them extended as leica >> recommends. The 90mm macro which> >> Leica says is OK does not >> extend pass the lens mount at all.> > >> __________________________________________________________________> >> > Thanks for the information(Nathan too).> > > > I have collapsible >> Summicrons in both bayonet and LTM, plus the 90 Elmar> > >> collapsible, and I use that feature all the time, so I wondered if >> these would> > work if I won the lottery and was able to get an >> M8. ;~)> > > > > > Alan> > > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior >> Photographer> > UPAA POY 1978> > University Information Technology >> Services> > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee> > http:// >> gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> > > > > > > > > > >> _______________________________________________> > Leica Users >> Group.> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information> > > > _______________________________________________> >> Leica Users Group.> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> for more information >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Send e-mail faster without improving your typing skills. >> http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail? >> ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_speed_122008 >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.16/1841 - Release Date: >> 12/10/2008 9:30 AM >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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