Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Noted the M8 is a 1.33x not 1.5 crop and that is a difference which is not negligible. Some of my favorite Leica glass is not Leica glass. Its Leitz glass. I don't know much about them they tell me they use to make microscopes. I got to the point where the lens most on my M6's would be the Summicron-C 40mm Leitz. Didn't get the cutting edge brilliant results I could certainly see in large fiber darkroom prints. But I was fond of the character. And the fact that it was a step down, really, in bulk and weight. And with my camera on me all day it made a difference. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/lhsawb59xx.jpg.html Or http://tinyurl.com/p4s7mz8 Less Tylenol. Got plenty of mileage when I pretty much switched to LTM in 2006 with my f3.5 Elmar collapsible 50 mm. Here it is in dirty dark mirror stoned in the kitchen. I mean bathroom. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/071028_083148.jpg.html Or http://tinyurl.com/p2wrkjj My IIIF done more carefully with same lens. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/061209_160902.jpg.html When I got my IIIF partly do to the kindness of a friend I soon got a wide and tele to make a for me complete package. As that's how I define a workable system. A body with a wide and a normal and a tele. In this case no flash. A Leitz 90mm f4 Elmar and a Leitz 35mm f3.5 Summaron. Both with indelible finger prints. Which never washed off even after being in the extra dirty setting of my dish washer. A shot of the Kodak building with my Leitz 90 Elmar http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fallrabs/071009_lhsa_rc_052xx.jpg .html Or http://tinyurl.com/o5p6hcn On 6/27/13 6:31 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >> The modern Fuji cropped sensor would blow the old >> cropped sensor of the M8 out of the water. And need no filtration. > > Other than a stronger IR filter and bigger sensor, is the M9 much > different to > the M8? M8 sensor is still slightly larger than APS-C... > >> Leica glass is great but a much better sensor gets around that advantage. > > Oh dear, you cannot see a difference in Leica glass to other > manufacturers? A > sharp lens is relatively easy to make, but one with character? So many to > choose from, but for me the 28mm Summicron, Noctilux, 75mm Summilux and > older > Summilux/Summicron are some of the lenses without peers for character.... > > john > -- Mark William Rabiner Photography