[Leica] Most portable 135 -- elaborations

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Vince,

On the Elmarit 90, using it on a 4/3's camera will degrade its performance 
compared to a D40x.  Which Elmarit 90 are you using, the M or R version?  
Also on the 200/4 Telyt, I have one and considering its age, it is a great 
lens, very sharp and good contrast.  I am amazed at how good it is when I 
consider when it was designed and built.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vince Passaro" <passaro.vince at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 11:48:54 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Most portable 135 -- elaborations

Well on the 200/4 'astounding' front, I guess that word applies to my
reaction to it since I too got it for about $50 and, unlike Nikon's faster
200's, I'd never heard boo said about it or read boo written about it. It
has a very rich treatment of color and if you take a picture of some trees a
hundred or more yards away you can count the leaves and tell which ones are
younger. So it astounded *me* at least.

On the 105/2.5 I was quite surprised that it looked better than the Elmarit
90. I intend to repeat the test and also to take a light to the inside of
the Elmarit to see if there's some otherwise invisible haze or something.
At 200 and 400 percent the differences were almost radical. Now what I
failed to say but that must be a factor is that the Nikon was on my D40x and
the Elmarit on the G1. The comparative crop sizes then are  180 for the
Elmarit and almost 160 for the 105. The G1 sensor is 12MP and Nikon is 10,
on a larger sensor. I don't know enough about sensor technology or the ways
the different cameras process the images to make any determination of
whether, or how, those things factor into the outcome. But whatever
advantage the Nikon has for being larger one would think G1 makes up for
being far newer.

And yeah, one gets a little ga-ga this time of year around the university.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> > Vince,
> >
> > While I agree the Nikon 105/2.5 is a great lens, I had one many years
> ago,
> > and certainly better than the 90 Elmar C, it does not outperform the 90
> > Elmarit R, imho.
> >
>
> Gene, Vince is an Academic; it is late in the semester. They don't get out
> much this time of year.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
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>
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