Hello all and thank you for the emails received on my first day, I am a new member of the forum and await my first Leica Reflex from eBay, an R8 with 50/f2 summicron. Your comment about the Zeiss 50 1.4 is interesting as I was debating not buying the R8 and going the Zeiss route with my Nikon F3, but have always wanted a Leica R and at last have taken the plunge. There's an R3 just around the corner from me for only AU$400 in nice condition, anyone got any experience of this lovely looking camera? Thank you all for the fabulous content, had a long look at Doug Herr's web site with awe struck fascination, superb. Anyway, that's all for now - got to do another real estate web site. Kind regards REG Herman Kempers wrote: > > Nice document, I wish they made their lens(es?) as good as this information > sheet. > Last year I bought the Zeiss Planar 1,4/50 ZE for my Canon 5dII. > > This lens is beautifull made, very solid, smooth focussing, very nice to work > with. > > But it was not usable under the 5,6. > > I felt I got a better image quality when using a pinhole camera. It had a > terrible vignetting which disappeared slowly by stopping down. And the > (un)sharpness in the corners was even worse, which completely disappeared at > 5.6 > > I must say it was more than excellent by 5.6 or 8 , but what is the point of > designing a 1.4 if it's not usable, even stopping down (besides a nice clear > view!) > > I sent it back to Carl Zeiss in Germany (the lens itself is made in Japan) > but they returned it, after testing, saying it was within all tolerances. > > Well , there's the problem; their tolerances.... > > Anyway, I sold the ZE and now using my Summicron 2.0/50. It can slow you down > a little, but besides that it operates great and image quality is known to > everybody. > > > > NB! My expierence is only the 1,4/50. I really don't know about their Maco or > Wide Angle lenses!! Mayby they are very good!! > > > > best to all > > herman > > > Here is a new document from Zeiss about bokeh, for those who might be > interested. > > http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B8B6F/EmbedTitelIntern/CLN_35_Bokeh_EN/$File/CLN35_Bokeh_en.pdf > > All the best, > > Bill------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/