Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Das is ein sehr sh?ner K?lner Dom! On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I really think on most camera lists with guys trading back and forth > opinions on a lens they've bought and sold back and forth there'd > be showing > uploads of examples they'd shot with that lens early on or at least > some > time during the thread. It would not be "oh I looked at mine the > other day > and it looked real nice". Because here its really sounding like > which lens > is more fun to fondle. The "Mandler" or the non Mandler. > It sounding like the Mandler makes a better handler. > > Me whenever I like a lens its always because some where along the > line I > seemed to have taken a picture with it. Then I blow some of I it up > in my > darkroom. Then hang it on the wall or put it in a portfolio and > show it to > people. That's when I start liking the lens, seeing what results > it makes > for me. Not because it feels real good in my hand one day ... Here > its now > sounding like all theoretical rhetoric. I really think those days > of just > BS'ing on photo chat lists are over. > > > Mark William Rabiner > By the way here's a shot I did with my 21mm M Elmarit 2.8. > The darkroom 16x20s I'd made with it made my former wide champ my > Nikkor 24 > 2.8 look very average and unremarkable. Non scintillating. > But like the prairie home companion guy says we're all very much > slightly > above average and that's just find and dandy. (to paraphrase) > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > 060929_lhsa_wetz_158.jpg.html > Its the K?lner Dom (Dome of Cologne) > 21mm Leica Elmarit Asph Ilford XP2 film > 060 yellow green filter > > >> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:18:59 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? >> >> Vic, >> >> I have the 28 Elmarit-R, which is fairly compact. Would work >> great on the >> R9, but is a little hard to focus on my Oly DSLRs. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:58 AM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? >> >> >>> Thanks Marty. >>> >>> I sold my 35/1.4 R, partially due to it being too heavy. >>> >>> I'm thinking of getting a 35/2 R. Or maybe only reserving my >>> 35mm focal >>> length shooting to M camera. >>> >>> But I would like a small R lens to use on my R9. I only have >>> superwides >>> and tele's for it. >>> >>> regards >>> >>> >>> Vick >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6/21/2011 8:01 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: >>>> I just played with some 35mm R lenses recently. The Mandler >>>> version >>>> of the lens is really great. It's very flare resistant with light >>>> sources in the frame, has excellent colour reproduction and few >>>> serious flaws. It occasionally flares when there are diffuse, >>>> bright >>>> sources of light outside the frame, much like the 50/2 Summicron-M >>>> six-element versions. With an SLR you can usually see the flare >>>> before you shoot. The Summilux-R is better until about f2.8-4, >>>> where >>>> they become equal, and has better close up and near-far performance >>>> because of its floating element. But the Summilux has more optical >>>> vignetting, and has a 67mm filter thread, and is much heavier, >>>> instead >>>> of 55 for the Summicron. >>>> >>>> Marty >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information