Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Seth, Your new articles sound scrumptious. Two great lenses. Can't wait. Thanks for the tip on the Summaron. I never considered it before. Len On Dec 11, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Seth Rosner wrote: > 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. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.16/1843 - Release Date: > 12/11/2008 8:36 AM > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information