Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Huntley wrote: >>>>> On Thursday I bought a 15mm Heliar. On Friday, I shot photos with it, developed the film and printed (via Photoshop) the results. On Saturday, I returned the lens and got a refund. ......snip..... but the the overexposure was so great that there was little detail there and what there was, was very fuzzy. In my opinion, this is an overrated lens.<<<<<< gee Steve, That's a surprise to many of us 15MM lens users. And in my case the 15mm triggered a book project that's now on the way to being printed October 2001! And the publisher is going with it due to the quality of the printed images he saw from the 15. Maybe you jumped a little fast lad, I wonder how many rolls you shot and under what conditions. And by any chance did you compare the results to using the R 15mm lens side by each? Yours is probably the most negative sounding comments of a great number of LUGNUTS who purchased and use this lens. Is there a wild possibility you got a bummer lens? I mean the results from mine when I've screened slides for other professional photographers to pick out Leica images from the non Lieca images has fooled many of them into picking the Voigtlander 15mm lens slides as being the Leica slides. And that's no BS! Sorry to hear your reaction as it's a cracker jack fun and professional lens to use. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Huntley" <rshuntl@netscape.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:18 PM Subject: [Leica] Not Leica quality > Sharpness/resolution was pretty good in the center, contrast was OK--but vignetting was worse than I thought possible. Photoshop managed to lighten the corners and edges (the left edge exhibited very bad vignetting) > Steve > __________________________________________________________________ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/