[Leica] Some shots with the CV 15mm 4.5 and the M8...

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Eric Korenman offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Some shots with the CV 15mm 4.5 and the M8...


> Cool. I have been figuring on setting sites on a 15mm or 21mm after my M8
> arrives.<<<


Hey guys I have to tell you even though the results look great off the M8 
with the 15, it pales in comparison to the same 15 on a full frame of 35mm 
film out of an M7! Period!

Now I'm a super wide shooter kind of guy, ;-) 15mm is one of my all time 
favourite lenses and used properly it creates images that are just 
beautiful. Now don't anyone bother bringing up anything about distortion 
simply because if you are using a 15 or any super wide, you have to "see 
super wide" in how you look at scenes or whatever it is you're shooting. If 
not all you'll do is have all kinds of screwed-up lines.

But that's because the photographer, not the lens, didn't know how to handle 
the lens properly, but we're not talking about that, it's the captured image 
on an M8.

No matter how interesting the image may look on the screen of the M8 or 
computer screen or print, it's not any where as smashing an image from full 
frame!

Simply because last week I shot a bunch of stuff with the 15, 21 and the 35 
on an M8 and the super wides looked very good....... but they didn't have 
that absolutely "special super wide look" of full 35mm framing.

Now if Leica should make some super wides designed for the M8 I'd have one 
as soon as I could get my hands on it, or them. :-)

But if one is a super wide user you'll be marginally happy with the M8 
coverage only because you wont get your full 15mm view. But without question 
you'll be blown away completely with the captured quality of what you get.

ted