Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/16
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At 10:49 AM 16/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>William Albert Allard used to own and use three 50mm lenses, Noctilux,
>Summilux and Summicron. But he normally keeps shooting wide open all the
>time, so stopped down performance isn't much of a concern sine he had a
>Summicron. He used the lens that fit the specific situation because he felt
>they all had special characteristics wide open.
>
>Now chew on that... <evil grin>
That sounds like a typical eccentric Leica user thing to do.
...and I thought I had a hard time explaining why I owned 3 different 200mm
Nikkor lenses. (200/2, 200/4 and 80-200/2.8 if you must know)
...but a 50mm!!????? (I'm not much of a 50mm user)
Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
St. John's, Newfoundland.
<http://www.straylight.ca/locke/>
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