Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have an aluminum or some God-awful alloy Russian-made 50/1.5 Sonnar that focuses better than the Zeiss M lens, as does the Contax C lens on my Contax. In retrospect, it would have been wiser (by about $750) for me to buy Stephen Gandy's Bessa Contax mount camera body and put the old Zeiss lens on it. The Zeiss site says that they 50/1.5 improves at 5.6 and smaller. Is there any lens that doesn't look pretty good at 5.6 and smaller? I've got a great 50/3.5 Heliar for that. I do like the OOF aspects of the Sonnar. That said, it seems to be an outdoor lens. Jeffery On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Greg Lorenzo wrote: > > hopsternew at gmail.com writes in part: > >> The Sonnar was interesting. This sample appeared very well made like all >> of >> this series that I have handled or owneed. Of course Zeiss themselves say >> that it is meant to be a reproduction of a classic design, it does focus >> shift and it has its own distinct character. > > I tried out a Zeiss ZM 50/1.5 for a few days after finding I quite liked > my Soviet made copy with my M film cameras. The new Zeiss lens being of > better build quality then the Soviet lens. To my surprise I found the > Zeiss lens to be soft/soft/soft to about f4. Nothing coming out in sharp > focus. Thinking my eyes were the problem I put the Soviet lens on for a > few shots on the next roll and problem solved I had sharp focus from f1.5 > to 4. > > Didn't buy the Zeiss lens and now I have two Soviet 50/1.5 lens as I found > one NIB which was made in 1963 (reportedly a good year for these lenses). > > Greg Lorenzo > Calgary, Canada > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information