Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris, Yes, underexposure. Please excuse my poor editing. You say it was not a lens to put on a Leica; was severe vignetting the problem for you as well? Several Luggers responded to my message with praise for the Heliar; one suggested I may have gotten a lemon not representative of the true qualify of the lens. Thanks, Steve Christer Almqvist wrote: > > Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 09:16:52 +0200 > From: Christer Almqvist <christer@almqvist.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Not Leica quality > Message-ID: <f05010436b6ec832a4f64@[195.64.98.44]> > References: <200103312218.OAA19326@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <0B684C41.1714BACE= > .0021EE48@netscape.net> > > > On Thursday I bought a 15mm Heliar. On Friday, I shot photos=20 > >with it, developed the film and printed (via Photoshop) the results.=20 > >On Saturday, I returned the lens and got a refund. > > Sharpness/resolution was pretty good in the center, contrast was=20 > >OK--but vignetting was worse than I thought possible. Photoshop=20 > >managed to lighten the corners and edges (the left edge exhibited=20 > >very bad vignetting) but the the overexposure was so great that=20 > >there was little detail there and what there was, was very fuzzy. In=20 > >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=20 > to use it as a trade in. I lost more money on that lens than on any=20 > Leica lens I have traded in. OK, I had bought all the Leica lenses=20 > 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=20 > Leica lens much more frequently than I had been doing before. Other=20 > advantages: it is compact, and it is cheap. But it is not a lens to=20 > put on a Leica M body > > BTW, I guess that you mean underexposure (of the negative) when you=20 > write overexposure. Or is this Photoshop language, with which I am=20 > not familiar, I have to admit? > > Chris > - --=20 > Christer Almqvist > D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or > F-50590 Regn=E9ville-sur-Mer, France > __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/