Re: Summilux 50mm f/1.4 ASPH

On Mon, 31 May 2004, Jim Brick wrote:

> 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!

Buy a Noctilux as third 50mm lens. After all, everyone needs a 50mm
Summicron as supersharp/supercontrasty standard lens for strong light and
the Noctilux as lowlight-lens, so a 1.4/50 with excellent quality will
serve well for the situations between this two lighting conditions.

Don't tempt me...

Grüße aus Hohenlohe,

        Martin Jangowski

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