Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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. > 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) 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. > Steve Steve, that was a clever move. I waited too long to get rid of mine and had to use it as a trade in. I lost more money on that lens than on any Leica lens I have traded in. OK, I had bought all the Leica lenses second hand and the Heliar new, so the comparison is not 100% fair. The main advantage of the Heliar was that it taught me to use my 21mm Leica lens much more frequently than I had been doing before. Other advantages: it is compact, and it is cheap. But it is not a lens to put on a Leica M body BTW, I guess that you mean underexposure (of the negative) when you write overexposure. Or is this Photoshop language, with which I am not familiar, I have to admit? Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France