Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its almost a pancake. A fat pancake. A short stack. And a flat lens like this I kind of feel like not using a lens hood on as you want it to fit into a small bag or even a coat pocket... And got in the way. And being a wide anyway.. On 4/6/15 5:19 PM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > The biggest advantage to the 28 Elmarit Asph. is its size, it is tiny on > the > M. Its optical performance is also excellent in my opinion. It is easily > a > pocket camera with the 28 El. Asph. (Coat/jacket pocket). > > Gene > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 1:40:16 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Was: Screw the Nocti, Now: 28mm And BeThere > > Its not the best thinking became you are replacing a 35 with a 28 thinking > they will be about the same while they are quite different. (one of my > favorite Rockwell quirks)/ A 35 is a slightly wide angle lens and a 28 is a > decidedly wide angle lens. I've always assigned them completely different > usages. > > > On 4/6/15 10:13 AM, "Robert D. Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I bought the 28mm Summicron-M ASPH I think at about the time it was >> released, IIRC at the Leica Seminar on Cape Cod in 2001. I never got >> comfortable with the focal length and sold it some years later. >> >> Now I'm thinking about buying a 28mm Elmarit-M 2.8 to use on my M240, >> mainly when I'm traveling and don't want to carry my current 35mm >> Summilux. >> >> Is this good thinking? >> >> --Bob >> >> >> ===On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Erwin Puts: >>> "The Summicron-M 2/28 mm ASPH. is one of the crown jewels in the Leica >>> scuderia of lenses. It is a superb lens and after twelve years in >>> production still not surpassed." >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/5/2015 9:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe on this thing we should find the specs. The MTF graphs. And or >>>> some >>>> reviews by people who sound like they may know what they're talking >>>> about. >>>> Instead of relying on capricious or even malicious chat group gossip. >>>> I can speak for the finish of the lens a chrome version which looked top >>>> Leica quality to me. If that accounts for much. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 4/6/15 12:24 AM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Interesting. i remember several years ago everyone was praising the 28 >>>>> Chron. >>>>> I wonder what has changed? >>>>> >>>>> Gene >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:06:51 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti... >>>>> >>>>> If I do street documentary, I would get a 28mm (again) for sure. I did >>>>> most >>>>> of my "Occupy" series with the 35 or 50mm, and I definitely would have >>>>> loved a 28mm. >>>>> >>>>> Fortunately, the 28mm Cron is the unloved Leica-child, so one can get >>>>> it >>>>> for around $2500 now. A bargain compares to the Nocti :-) >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Mark, I think you should go back a reread your books ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> john >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Mark Rabiner >>>>>> Sent: Monday, 6 April 2015 6:08 a.m. >>>>>> To: Leica Users Group >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti... >>>>>> >>>>>> Most of us and most photographers I've ever met unless they were just >>>>>> starting out had both a 28 and a 24. Nobody ever didn't have either. >>>>>> That >>>>>> would be crazy. Its always been a basic focal length. Its one of the >>>>>> frame >>>>>> lines in M's since the M2 in 1957. >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/