Re: Summilux 50mm f/1.4 ASPH

At 07:25 PM 5/30/2004, Karen Nakamura wrote:


Wow, i was just reading the PDF brochure of the new Summilux ASPH. I'm totally sold. Has anyone looked at the MTF graphs? At f/1.4, they're absolutely incredible. I have never seen such a contrasty lens with such high resolution figures. Wow. It has higher MTF at 20 lpm @ f/1.4 than the Canon 50mm f/1.4 has at 10LPM.



The problem is, I just love my current 50/1.4 lens. It makes photographs that look like Leica photographs. They glow!

The new 50/1.4 will not look like this. It'll make photographs that look like my 35/1.4 ASPH. Great lens but the photographs do not have much "Leica" character. They're crispy sharp, contrasty, bright, but sterile.

Which means that I'll have to have two 50mm lenses. Yikes!!! I'm already poor. What are they trying to do to us!

Jim 


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