[Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me!

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Richard,
The lens sure looks good to me.  Its performance is pretty nice, especially 
on the Audi R8, a lovely auto. ;)

gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:53:45 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me!

Took the Perar 28 for a bike ride to downtown. Totally disgusted at Larry
Page new mansion - a 3 story thing that will dwarf even the big houses
around it.

Anyway, back to the Perar 28. Mark is right in the sense that the out of
focus area, particularly close to the corners, the OoF image just sort of
have a shear look to them. I am sure there's a technical term for this type
of aberration. This is a bit unusual lens for me as I mostly have late
versions of sharp lens, e.g. 50 'lux ASPH, 35 'lux ASPH, 85/2 Sonnar, 25 ZM
etc. and of course the XPan lens are also without peer.

So the question is, does the rest of the image quality and the size
advantage compensates for this flaw? You be the judge:

http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/Perar28/

Still not a whole lot of processing, but I did fix some vignetting using
LR. One thing about the Perar is that it is quite sharp at the focused
area. Looking at these images, I am quite happy with them. The lens is tiny
and is a joy to use. It's not for everybody but it works for me. If I am
going out explicitly for shooting, then a better lens will be warranted but
for the "always have a camera with you" situation, it works quite well
enough. If you use it on one of the mirrorless cameras with smaller sensor,
then even the corner performance is not going to be an issue.

The Perar 35 does not have this issue and I think is optically superior.
However, the handling is not as nice as the Perar 28.


-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>

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