Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] M8
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:59:01 +0000 (GMT)
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If I get round to doing a comparison stopped down?I will let you know. I 
usually expect most respectable lenses are pretty good stopped down, no 
point in paying a lot for a fast lens if you are going to mainly use f5,6!
Often there is something about the look of pictures from a particular lens 
which I like, but it isn't resolution, I don't think. Leica are my 
favourites.

Frank



----- Original Message ----
From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, 22 August, 2009 3:29:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] M8

Frank,
How do the lenses compare stopped down a stop or two?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:40 PM, FRANK DERNIE
<frank.dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:

> Hi Neil, I do have a Nikon D300 and two Nikon 50mnm f1.4 lens of different
> vintages, amongst others. I can assure you it is -much- bigger than my M8,
> or M6. I also own the new and older Leica 50mm f1.4 lenses. They are both
> noticeably better than the Nikon at f1.4, the new one astonishingly so,
> probably as much as you might expect from the price difference. The leica
> lenses are also -much- smaller.
> The differences in quality between the lenses is -much- more easily noticed
> in digital than from film, which tends to fuzz out the difference somewhat.
> IME
> Frank
>
>
>

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