Having owned both modern Leica 180 APOs and the Cv 180 APO, if I could get a lens that was 25% (roughly $500+ these days) of the price of a used 180/2.8 APO yet was second in that FL in terms of resolution and APO correction ONLY to the 180/2.8 APO, I\'d call that a bargain. If, as a Nikon shooter, this also saved me stop-down metering, the bargain only gets better.
For close to the same price (give it time, hell, CV 125 AiS units have gone for $1900 on Ebay, so you never know..) , the Leica 180 APOs are unquestionably king, but that hasn\'t happened yet.
As a DAP subscriber, Lloyd\'s tests look pretty accurate vs. my experience. SLR and rangefinder CV lenses are typically lower macro (not micro) contrast (which can fool the eye into thinking are soft, which they are not) than Leica and both are in turn, typically, lower in macro contrast than Zeiss, but macro contrast is easy to add in PP if desired. Resolution (micro contrast) and APO correction, well, isn\'t ;>
Feb 27, 2009 at 08:29 AM
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