Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, and the 24 has a lot less distortion if you are willing or able to take a half a step back. Marty On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > They have to make compromises. Even the wizards of Solms cannot do magic > beyond certain points. It has horrible purple fringing around tree branches > and the distortion makes it not too useful for full on architectural work. > But then again, this is why Leica makes the Super Angulon and the other 21, > heck, even Zeiss makes a very good one :-) This is a lens made for low > light > shooting... > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at > frozenlight.eu>wrote: > >> That's a surprising amount of distortion for a Leica lens--but an >> impressive piece of glass nonetheless. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Richard Man wrote: >> >> > This lens has more distortion than the Super Angulon and about 4 times >> the >> > size, but if you want to shoot at 1.4, what choice is there? >> > http://www.5pmlight.com/PICS/L9995407.jpg >> > >> > BTW, all but one photos from previous link are shot with this lens as >> well. >> > http://www.5pmlight.com/PICS/tmp/SFMOMA-people/ >> > >> > -- >> > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> >> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >> previous >> > replies in your msgs. ] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >