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Subject: [Leica] Nikon forum advice (OT!)
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:56:15 -0500
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I shall accept the [gulp] challenge. Without my M8, it will have to be a 
25/1.4 Summilux on an Olympus E30. 

Okay, what the hell week is this?!

Sent from my iPad

Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, Louisiana
USA

On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:48, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> Remarkably little difference between them at f5.6, especially given the 
> difference in price/size/weight!
> 
> Still time to start a PAW, I only started this year, and it is useful to 
> show some images that do not stand up on their own and that other peoples 
> taste can be different to your own ;-) I am still a sparse shooter, too 
> many years with sheet and 120 film I think, so do not have to choose from 
> 720 in a week ;-)
> 
> john
> ________________________________________
> 
> 
> And the 15 Zeiss was the tipping $ point that was not made by Cosina, 
> putting it out of my reach. I do have the 15 VC but virtually never use it.
> 
> I regret not doing a PAW, and admire those doing a PAW or PESO. The 
> pressure of doing a PAW made me think photographic thoughts every day. 
> And, pathologically, digital seem to steal some of the magic. Instead of 
> scanning 36 frames, I was editing 720 frames.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> Jeffery L. Smith
> New Orleans, Louisiana
> USA
> 
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>> I think the 15mm is the only asph in the ZM range. I suspect that the 
>> Zeiss SLR range will start to get asph lenses as CA is a big issue on the 
>> D800(E) with them.
>> 
>> john
>> ________________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> I'm willing to throw Zeiss into that as well. I'm not sure that Zeiss 
>> uses as much asph as Leica, or if they just don't mention it in the lens 
>> name.
>> 
>> It is probably a flaw in my standards that I don't care so much about 
>> corner sharpness. If the corner is that important, I should have put it 
>> in the middle instead of the corner.
>> 
>> Other than my Russian lenses, virtually everything I own is good enough 
>> for me (= better than me). I really don't like anything about zoom lenses 
>> and rarely use them on my dSLR cameras.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> Jeffery L. Smith
>> New Orleans, Louisiana
>> USA
>> 
>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 21:49, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ah, I was talking Leica asph ;-)
>>> 
>>> john
>>> ________________________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton was perhaps the first really sharp, 
>>> afforable, asph lens that people hated for its bokeh. The trend in 
>>> thinking seemed to be that reducing aberrations with asph elements 
>>> benefitted everything except bokeh.
>>> 
>>> I think every lens needs to be assessed on its own merit. I don't have 
>>> any bad Leica lenses, though the old 50/3.5 Elmar performs like a 
>>> Russian copy. Wait, maybe it is....
>>> 
>>> The 50/2.5 Hexanon is better.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> Jeffery L. Smith
>>> New Orleans, Louisiana
>>> USA
>>> 
>>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 20:56, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think that is a widely held misconception....
>>>> 
>>>> john
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> By the way, George, you had some incredibly creamy-bokeh shots posted 
>>>> the other day, and one of them was with an aspherical Leica lens(!). It 
>>>> blew away my bias that aspherical = bad bokeh.
>>>> 
>> 
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