Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]tom a mentions about a glow wide open , which i translate to focus shift. all the latest cosina lenses have focus shift syndrome, i wonder why! and leica is getting away from it as fast as they can. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote: > I had a chance to play a bit with Tom Abrahamsson's copy of the lens. It > looks very nice, and seems a bargain at the likely price of $7-800US. It's > about halfway in size and weight between the 75/2 and 75/1.4 of Leica's. > The > hood is not built in, but can be reversed with a unique screw in/clamp on > two part design that seems a bit fiddly. > > I didn't do any rigorous testing, but it seems more like the Summilux in > character and would make an excellent portrait lens, hence 'Heliar > Classic'. > It seems very sharp though at f/1.8 with very pleasing bokeh. It seems to > have some focus shift, just like the Summilux, but it's very little. > Unfortunately, like the 75/2.5, it only focusses to .9m. > > > > > At 5:17 PM +1000 8/20/10, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > >> For anyone interested a friend of mine is the local distributor for >> Voigtlander products and he has just released details of a new 75mm M >> mount >> lens in their range. You can read the detail on his blog here. >> >> http://mainlinephoto.wordpress.com/ >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad