[rollei_list] Re: OT: Leica
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:18:53 -0500
At 05:01 PM 11/15/2009, Thor Legvold wrote:
>With that said, I can imagine the body alone costs a small fortune,
>not to mention lenses for it. I was out shooting with my Contax IIa
>today, and while it doesn't have as modern a feel as the Leica did,
>I'm confident that the glass is at least on a par, if not better
>(Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5 and 85/2 used today). If helps that I had Henry
>Scherer restore it to as new a while back....
The latest Contax lenses were designed in
1954. The oldest Leica M lenses available today
were designed around 1985. Trust me, the Leica
glass is better than the Zeiss Contax RF lenses,
though the differences are only visible in really critical work.
A Leica M body can be had for around $1000 or so,
hardly a "small fortune". I have five Leica RF
bodies and a bunch of lenses and accessories and
have no money in them, as I have been buying and
selling for decades, and these are the "profit"
from such sales. I also have six Contax RF
bodies and a slew of lenses for them and,
similarly, I have no money in them, either. But,
then, I swapped a Leica M4 body for my 2.8GX.
The metering on an M6 is pretty simple and is deadly accurate.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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