Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While I agree that the G 28mm is a great lens, the 45 is highly over rated. While it IS sharp, even at full aperture, the out of focus areas take on the same "donuts in the air" look that we saw recently in a shot taken with the new Cosina LTM 35. I have found the rendition of out of focus highlights to be AWFUL and all my Zeiss 50 and 45 planars. Lots of pentagons floating in space, all of them sharply defined and quite noticeable. My Summicron R renders these same highlights as fuzzy blobs, with only a token resemblance to the shape of the lens iris. As for the Biogon...It is wonderful. It is, for me, the best reason to buy a G contax. (maybe the only reason) Best wishes Dan States Madison WI >Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:19:05 -0500 > >At 12:01 AM 11/8/00 -0800, you wrote: > >>(Of course the most perfect set of connoisseur lenses ever made are the >>Biogon-Planar-Sonnar 28-45-90 for the G cameras. Too bad the darn things >>don't attach to better cameras.... ;-) >> >>- --Mike > > >I'm surprised to hear you say this, Mike, as you've said on numerous >occasions that blur is especially important to you in the evaluation of a >lens, and that Zeiss lenses rarely have good bokeh. (I agree, by the way; >sold my Contax SLR.) Are the G lenses better in this regard, or is it >simply that their other virtues outweigh this deficiency? Myself, I have >to say that nothing in my experience comes close to the Leica M line, >pre-aspherical. I haven't tried all of the new Konica lenses, and they may >well give the Leicas a run for their money (although the Hexar's hardly a >"line" yet); and my limited experience of Canon LTMs suggests that they can >perhaps hold their own with early Leica optics, but the M line seems >uniformly superb. (This should win me at least a couple of friends on this >list.) I also have no experience of the R lenses -- I must confess that >I've never heard a reasonable defense of the R bodies, so I've never given >them much thought. (This should lose me these new friends on the list.) > >cheers, > >DC > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.