[Leica] The smallest M lens

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Take a look at his shot it looks like it was taken with a Holga.
Of course your right about much of this glass not having stellar corner
performance like cutting edge ASPH modern glass does but that is a far cry
from the way the triplet image totally falls apart at the sides visible even
in this rather low rez example. As in you're reading the words on those
signs and they fall apart. It looks like its out of focus. But in the center
its sharp. Its like an effect.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Philip Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:09:32 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The smallest M lens
> 
> The 50 Elmar, any 35 Summaron, and especially the 35 pre-asph 'Lux are
> certainly not known for their corner performance at all. Even the 90
> Elmar is weak in the corners until it's stopped down. I'm willing to
> wager the 35 perar holds its own against the pre-asph Lux or either
> Summaron simply by virtue of modern design but also because those old
> lenses are not sharp across the plane until f/5.6 or even f/8.
> Granted, I love my Leica lenses because of their aberrations but to
> claim that Leica can do no wrong in comparison to this newcomer that is
> amazingly tiny then to bring up the very lenses that have the
> aberrations you complain about in the new one is just plain funny.
> 
> Phil Forrest
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:36:17 -0500
> Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> There have always been plenty of very small footprint non descript
>> Leica lenes which add little to the weight and bulk of an M body yet
>> give full quality out to the edges as in the kind of quality one gets
>> into Leica for. And I'm not even talking about the collapable Elmar a
>> lens in chrome version my X has gotten a LOT of use out of. She also
>> uses or used the colorable 90 elmar. But the 50 works on an M9.
>> My 50 Summicron is light and small. My 45 Summicron C is lighter and
>> smaller. My 35 Summicron ASPH would be even lighter and smaller if it
>> were not the ASPH. And the summilux you can hardly tell the
>> difference. Half the Leica glass out there tends to be tiny.
>> The default filter size is 39. Those are my main filters for my Leica
>> glass. I have an old tiny 35 Summaron I could use on an M with an
>> adaptor. I got it for my LTM system
>> I'm not sure what the cache is for this Pera 35/3.5 lens.
>> What it opens up for the photographer that he didn't have opened up
>> for him or her before.
>> Mr. Miyazaki may believe that a well designed triplet exceeds a
>> Tessar but this one gives laughable results at the edges wide open.
>> It looks like shot through a car window at an angle. For all the big
>> bucks and rhetoric you get a Japanese hand built Holga.
>> And at the same price a new chrome 50 Silver Elmar went for a few
>> years ago when we got one.
>> 
> 
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