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 p.245 #4 · Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread | |
denoir wrote:
You mean in what situations it has CA problems or in what situations I prefer the drawing style?
The latter. It is true that the 90 Cron v3 pulls alongside the 90AA when stopped down, but I tend to use my lenses more wide open than that, not normally doing much landscape photography with deep depth of field. But post away, and I will try to match.
denoir wrote:
...yet you use the Leica camera and glass mostly. Is there a difference? I think it also has to do with what is newer, and what fits our lives the best at the moment.
denoir wrote:
Well, yes, that's part of my point. You have these great lenses and a camera that can really make full use of them. Me keeping some old crappy lenses and cameras that I don't use is really nothing to keeping a couple of world class lenses and not using them.
You also don't really use your 5DII and Zeiss glass at the moment, which is what I meant. I don't care about your 350D, 7D or other crop-crap 
I think you were making the point a bunch of pages back that Leica is unlikely to ship an M10 any time soon. A simple cost neutral solution would be to sell the M8 & the 28/2 and get the M9. Use it for handheld shots and the Nikon when you need tripod action, tele or UWA. You can get wider lenses for the Leica later, or even better, sell that 200 VR which frankly is the really odd lens out in your collection and get something wider in M-mount.
I would not sell the 28/2 until I was certain that the 24 Elmarit/Lux would replace it, and then I would do it in the same transaction. As much as I like my other lenses, my copy of the 28 Cron operates *perfectly*, with just the right amount of focus ring resistance, and just the right amount of aperture ring heaviness and the detents are perfect. It is a little jewel, and I would have to commit ritual seppuku if I sold it and decided to buy one back later which was less perfect. My other lenses are all slightly less perfect. The 35 Lux ASPH aperture ring has a slightly loose feel, although that might be the brass. The 50 Lux ASPH has a slightly tight focus ring, and my 90AA has a fairly loose aperture ring. All are well within reasonable operating parameters, but the 28 Cron is just perfect.
I think about the 200/2 VR. On the one hand it is a dream lens, and I have loved using it and had so much fun with it. It makes great portraits, is zip-zip-lightning fast and accurate, has great sharpness and boke, and getting a great deal from a guy I know and trust was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so I would like to keep it. On the other hand, I obviously don't bring it as much as my other lenses...
I could also sell something else. I have a Manfrotto 405, Acratech Leveling Base, Manfrotto 055C tripod, Leitz 50 Dual-Range Cron, CV15 I, Hasselblad 2000FC/M, and various more or less expensive accessories, all just standing around waiting to be eBayed, but it takes time, carries a fair amount of stress with it, and is generally a pain in the ass, so I keep delaying it. Selling all of this and my M8 might be enough for an M9. Still, where is my chrome finish? Leica has failed me. I will fence-sit a while longer and see if the M10 doesn't come along in chrome, with high-res monitor, an improved IR filter (which I am highly sensitive to, just like my M8), a faster processor, ...
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