[rollei_list] Re: OT / prove it !
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:32:11 -0800
Marc,
If you like an M6 that is fine. Others may not, so what you may call
utilitarian, I call cumbersome and inflexible. Let me know how well
your M does when you need to use a zoom lens, or better yet when you
want to use a 24mm F1.4. Oh yes, there are 50mm F1 lenses on SLRs, and
also 85mm F1.2. compared to your 75mm F1.4. Plus you get to see what
you are shooting as opposed to estimate through partial viewfinder
windows.
Thanks but no thanks, I will srick to my SLRs and of course TLRs.
Peter K
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:20:31 -0500, Marc James Small
<msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 12:51 AM 3/31/05 +0200, Fred Fichter wrote:
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> >Here is my question : why all this fuss regarding leicas ? Because it=3D=
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> >produces better pictures ? Then please, show me examples of pictures=3D2=
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> >that one cannot make with any SLR and a good fast lens...
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> That really is not the proper question, Fred. More properly, the questio=
n
> should be about the immense utility of a rangefinder camera over the
> weak-sister abilities of an SLR, the wide-ranging capacity of the Leica
> system (my M6, for instance, can use Leitz accessories made in 1937 witho=
ut
> a problem), and the capability of the camera: the Leica camera is reliab=
le
> to a point which Nikon deliberately chose not to match and its lack of
> shutter noise allows great pictures to be shot in really low-light=3D
> conditions.
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> Leica lenses are great lenses but they have only recently come to be at t=
he
> cutting edge. (The recent 1.4/ and 2/35 lenses, the recent 1.4/50
> Summicron, the somewhat older 1.4/75 Summilux, the recent 2/90 Summicron
> and the 135 APO ASPH Televid all are now industry standards, whle the wid=
er
> lenses (I yawn in boredom!) seem to be at the front rank as well.) But,
> over the years, Leitz rarely produced world-standard lenses despite their
> hype: only the Summitar and early Summicron really deserve proper respec=
t
> but this started changing with the NR Summicron, the 2/9cm Summicron, and
> the epic pace-setter of the 1.4/35 Summilux, all in the late 1950's and
> into the early 1960's, followed by the 1963 second version of the Summilu=
x,
> a lens as good as Bertele's 1931 1.5/5cm CZJ Sonnar. But, to that point,
> the Leica history was based on the production of a grand and most utile
> camera coupled with decent lenses. Only in the recent years has Leica
> REALLY pushed the limits on lens quality.
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> Marc
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> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
> Cha robh b=3DE0s fir gun ghr=3DE0s fir!
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Peter K
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