Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Somebody should weigh in on the meaning and use of an ultra fast ultra wide. I cant. I have a 28 1.4 Nikon but I've only used it on crop circle bodies; So its really in effect a huge heavy normal; Which is a bit hard to focus manually on a D40X but works ok on a D200. The question is why you'd want ultra wide field but ultra thin front to back? And why in this digital era do we need ultra fast glass at all if not just to isolate the subject. I submit its darn hard to isolate a subject with a 21 millimeter lens. Even if in the end digitally its 21 * 1.33 = 27.93...a 28mm lens Mark William Rabiner > From: Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:44:22 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Erwin reviews new Summiluxes > > Damn, > On two counts; first that to see the true ability of the lens that you have > to use specialized film meaning that Leica is designing lenses beyond the > ability of most cameras to take advantage of. An secondly, I am going to > have to work very hard to afford the 21 as that focal length at 1.4 would > be > very useful. > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Steve Unsworth > <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>wrote: > >> And mighty fine they look too... >> >> <http://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/lenses/page142/SX2124_part2.html> >> >> Not cheap, but exceptional non the less. >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information