Replacement for Kodachrome?

Sander Vesik wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

If one is laying out top dollar, they are not interested in the consumer
market. its just not clear there is any single thing from leica worth
the price.

I wouldn't go that far... I'd go much further!

Seriously, the M6 shooter has some magnificent lenses to choose from, and
certainly worth the price.

Maybe time to raise the RF v. SLR debate //packs bags and runs like hell//

Cheers,
Alan



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Those are not "high definition film", moron!

Kodachrome is "high definition film".

And he is mistaken, too!

35mm lenses have higher definition that medium fiormat lenses, so the
advantage of Kodachrome is discernible in 35mm. It's not a significant
advantage in 120, because the medium-format lenses are not capable of
the requisite definition.

Ted wrote:
: Many years back, there was a shortage of several desirable pro Nikkors
: in long lengths, primes and a zoom or two.

: It turned out that these were all being bought up and coverted to cine
: use, the mod costing more than the lens itself (although not that much
: machine work was involved: the margin was priapric.) Eventually Nikon
: made enough and prices returned to "normal".

: Why didn't they go with the Leitz optics instead? Simple. They were
: not as good. Very simply indeed. If they'd of wanted Leica optics they
: would have bought them. They didn't.
: GERMAN OPTICS ARE NOT SUPERIOR! It's that goddamned simple.

The main differences between the German and Japanese optics is that the
German manufacturers tend not to make consumer grade (read much lower
quality) lenses. In the MF world the Japanese glass made by Mamiya, Pentax,
etc are as good as anything available for the 'blads.

All that said I do prefer the schniederSP? and Rodenstock lenses to Nikkor
and Fuji lenses for LF.
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Ted wrote:
: Many years back, there was a shortage of several desirable pro Nikkors
: in long lengths, primes and a zoom or two.

: It turned out that these were all being bought up and coverted to cine
: use, the mod costing more than the lens itself (although not that much
: machine work was involved: the margin was priapric.) Eventually Nikon
: made enough and prices returned to "normal".

: Why didn't they go with the Leitz optics instead? Simple. They were
: not as good. Very simply indeed. If they'd of wanted Leica optics they
: would have bought them. They didn't.
: GERMAN OPTICS ARE NOT SUPERIOR! It's that goddamned simple.

The main differences between the German and Japanese optics is that the
German manufacturers tend not to make consumer grade (read much lower
quality) lenses. In the MF world the Japanese glass made by Mamiya, Pentax,
etc are as good as anything available for the 'blads.

All that said I do prefer the schniederSP? and Rodenstock lenses to Nikkor
and Fuji lenses for LF.
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