dunders
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As Ms Whiteadder might say: WICKED CHILD!In a horrifying moment of weakness yesterday, I ordered one of these lenses!
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As Ms Whiteadder might say: WICKED CHILD!In a horrifying moment of weakness yesterday, I ordered one of these lenses!
It was ever thus. The Elmarit should be here about the end of next week.As Ms Whiteadder might say: WICKED CHILD!
Exciting times ahead! think we may have to start up a Elmarit 19mm on Sony thread.It was ever thus. The Elmarit should be here about the end of next week.
We all know who wrote the DMR bible right. LOLThe Elmarit-R 19 prices that Thorsten Overgaard quotes in the 2010 article linked a few times below have a very nice historical feel to them. Well before the M announcement and long after the DMRs had vanished, he notes that the version 1 could be had used for $1100-1400 and the version 2 topped out at $2000. A few unopened new version 2's he reported as discounted to $3500. On EBay today, the version 1 shows up still at $1200-1600, but the version 2's are up to the low to mid $3000s. From the picture that appears earlier in this thread, the version 1 is HUGE, so I can see why the 2's are market leaders. But if they are still not catching up to the price when new, maybe there remains an investment upside. And for use on an M, there is the possibility that the firmware correction handles the slight distortion that Guy points to at the start of this thread, HMMM....
scott
As I mentioned in the picture thread, I also picked up a Nikkor 18mm f/3.5 AI-S yesterday, quite on an impulse. I remembered this lens from years ago as being a very good performer, etc, and the price it was going for was almost silly-cheap. It's a much smaller lens, at least it is until you fit the lens hood when the front of it becomes a rather large dish.The Elmarit-R 19 ... the version 1 is HUGE ...
You will love it! The Summicron-R 50mm is sharp wide open and has a beautiful rendering signature. It's quite different from the equally lovely Summilux-R 50mm too. I need to have my Summicron 50 CLA'ed ... the focus helicoid grease is old and stiff.Just received my 50 Summicron-R. It is in a great shape, no nasty dings or anything.. focus is buttery smooth and aperture clicks are nice & snappy. It was the lovely Leica sensation I got used to with my previous M-lenses. Excellent stuff and to think I got it for measily 250 euros.. R-Fever!!!!
Need to do some testing with it later today and this week.
Meditating on my testing of the Nokton and M-Rokkor last evening, and using the Nokton over the weekend.
I'm ready to just toss in the towel on using M-mount lenses on the A7/A7r entirely. My longer lenses ... the M-Rokkor 90 and Hektor 135 ... work well enough, but none of the Color Skopars really sing, the Ultron is a mushy mess most of the time, the Nokton 40 is great if you ignore the corners or stop it down to slower than a Color Skopar, the M-Rokkor 40 is better than that, and the Nokton 50/1.5 (LTM) is only just "ok", it does not perform like either the Summicron-R 50 or Summilux-R 50 do. I don't even like using the 40s on this body ... the ergonomics are poor due to the position of the focusing ring and tab.
I might just keep the M-Rokkor 40 on the CL body where it belongs, sell the Nokton 40, and find a Summicron-R 35 for this slot in my lens kit. My A7 will be an all-Leica-R lineup, with a couple of specialty Nikkors complementing it.
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