Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're right. The end of her sleeve seems to be in focus. Well, where the heck can I get a Contax IIa rangefinder adjusted? The only camera repair guy in town seems to have been Katrina'ed into retirement. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don Dory Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:27 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a ContaxIia) Jeffery, If you look at Susan you will see that part of her sweater looks very sharp. I suspect the focus was off either because the RF is just a little off or that you just missed by a hair. My Sonnar is pretty sharp at 1.5 in the dead center few mm and then loses it toward the edges. If you can put your main subject in the middle it looks very good. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 3/30/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > I have never seriously used my 50/1.5 Sonnar because my Contax IIa > isn't terribly light-tight and its rangefinder is out of vertical > alignment. However, having just bought a 50/1.5 Sonnar in Leica LTM > mount, I tried to see what the lens could do. I don't have any of the > fancy equipment that Erwin Puts has, so my lens test consists > primarily of walking around the campus annoying people under different > lighting situations. Here are four shots from that roll of Tri-X. > > http://www.400tx.com/Susan.html f/1.5 > http://www.400tx.com/Michael.html f/2.0 > http://www.400tx.com/Thomas.html f/4 > http://www.400tx.com/Phillip.html f/5.6 > > My knee-jerk reaction is that it is a pretty good lens with nice > bokeh, but isn't razor sharp wide open (Susan may be blurry because I > was at 1/50). So, > it gives me pretty much what my Summarit and Canon 50/1.2 lens give me > wide > open...less than stellar images. However, closed down just a stop it > starts > performing fairly well. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information