[Leica] 75mm 1.4 - Any pics?

[aalmansi at yahoo.com (Aquiles Almansi)]

I had the same experience at first, with people
telling me that my pictures were out of focus. I even
considered eye surgery!

But, when one looks at a deph of field table, the
truth becomes obvious: wide open, at a short distance,
the DOF of any 75mm lens is extremely shallow (less
than 2cm, for example). If one adds that one is
shooting handheld, a moving subject, under very poor
light, an extremly fast/grainy film...don't expect
sharpeness! This lens is great to capture the
atmosphere of low light situations, but if one if
after sharp images...one needs to stay away from those
situations!

Example of extremely shallow deph of field:
http://www.leica-gallery.net/aalmansi/image-55783.html

and other examples:

http://www.leica-gallery.net/aalmansi/image-47261.html
http://www.leica-gallery.net/aalmansi/folder-7019.html

best regards,
--- "Deveney, Marty (PIRSA)"
<deveney.marty@saugov.sa.gov.au> wrote:

> I don't have one and have no pics to show, but the
> Summilux 75, in my
> opinion, is one of the great lenses available for
> 35mm photography.  It
> produced images that are beautiful.  I only don't
> have one because the one I
> borrowed showed me that I am poor at focusing it
> accurately wide open.  This
> may have been a camera body-lens issue and I may
> look at getting one in the
> future.
> 
> I also really like some Zeiss lenses and the Zeiss-M
> mount lenses and Ikon
> camera have got me quite excited - but looking at
> the Zeiss Ikon website,
> the saggital and tangential MTF measurements for
> some of the lenses are very
> different - I have seen this before in some Zeiss
> lenses that I was not fond
> of, like the 35/2.8 for the Contax SLRs.  It seems
> to translates into weird
> picture-taking characteristics, like unpredictable
> sharpness and contrast
> depending on the primary texture of the subject.  I
> will probably still
> investigate them when they come out, but it seems
> strange to me to talk them
> up so much then to show those MTFs.  Did anyone
> notice this too?
> 
> Marty
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