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Subject: [Leica] The smallest M lens
From: lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:59:14 -0500
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Hand made .... as in ground or does this just mean assembled?

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Richard Man
<richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> Well, they are hand made lens. I think of it as a way to support dying
> breed of craftsman.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
> archiphoto.com>wrote:
>
>> Interesting. Doesn't quite ring my bell for the price, but it certainly is
>> small.
>>
>> On the documentation the spelling has been adjusted. Now it's the "Super
>> Tripret". I'm sure it still works.
>>
>>
>> On 2012-02-23, at 7:01 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>>
>> > As I mentioned before, I love the Pera 35/3.5 lens. Collapsed, it's
>> hardly
>> > larger than a body cap so there really is no reason not to take the M
>> > everywhere. This is the reason why I'm not interested m 4/3, X10 etc.
>> Sure,
>> > it doesn't zoom or has liveview or do video, but comparing to an M9,
>> > everything else just seems a bit lacking (except for the XPan of course
>> > :-), or an Alpa, or an S2, or...) <-- my opinions only and I am talking
>> > about for myself only. Everyone is entitled to their preferences.
>> >
>> > Anyway, the Pera 35 is no longer the smallest M lens. That honor is now
>> on
>> > another lens that Miyazaki san makes by hand: the Perar 28/4 Super
>> Tpirlet
>> > (the first batch all has the misspelling). It doesn't collapse and it's
>> > smaller than the Perar 35 collapsed!
>> >
>> > Mine came in today and I just took a few quick test shots. The first 
>> > shot
>> > here is mainly to see what happens shooting into the Sun and it looks
>> > pretty good. All photos have been processed a bit using LR. Nothing
>> heroic.
>> > I also cropped the last two images a bit.
>> >
>> > All in all, looks like another winner. Now it's even more so of having 
>> > no
>> > excuse not to take the M9 everywhere!
>> >
>> > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009641.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009646.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009648.jpg
>> >
>> > --
>> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>> >
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>>
>>
>> Henning Wulff
>> henningw at archiphoto.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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