Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, I never did any serious testing, as I said in my post of the other day? "I bought LEICA LENSES" the best in the world. Well that always seemed what the German testers offered in their reviews? Bias? :-) The lenses quite often came out of the box with a little bit of touchie feelies, clicked on camera and into assignment battle! Develop film after assignment completed. Soup and print! That was my test and I'd smile and feel good looking at the 8X10 prints as they came up in the developer tray! Through to washer-dryer. Out of the dryer for inspection? YEP & SMILE! Quietly saying under my breathe? "Damn I'm good!" :-) Of course you're doing this all alone talking to yourself! The lens was just absolutely perfect "WHY TEST?" cheers, Dr. ted C. M. O.C. :-) -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman Sent: December-19-16 11:50 AM To: LUG at Leica-Users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] [OM] IMG: The Age-Old Question: Which 50mm? The duck is nice enough, but if you hand-held the camera, then you are not really conducting a lens test. To do that, you need a tripod. Or you can do like me, just go out and take pictures ;-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 16 Dec 2016, at 23:13, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > > I have recently posted some images made with the post-war Russian Jupiter 8, a Zeiss copy, and have had some favorable comments. I personally like its images, and it is a very small package. Today, I decided to compare it to other older 50s in my collection. I have no modern prime lenses in my collection. > > I set up a porcelain Wood Duck near a window, so that I could shoot as I normally do, hand-held at about 3 ft. The light required ISO 1000. I shot two images with each lens at f/2.8. The collection included the Jupiter 8, the Canon 50/1.4, the Leica Summitar, the Leica-R Summicron, and the Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50/1.4. > > I processed the RAF files sparingly, to let the original files prevail. Surprisingly, the Canon and the Summicron appeared the best. After a little sharpening, I picked the Summicron-R as the winner, with the Canon a close second. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Leica+Summicron-R+50mm+2_0+Lens +at+2_8+Final.tif.html > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Canon+50mm+1_4+Lens+at+2_8+Fina l.tif.html > > Unfortunately, these are two of the largest, heaviest 50s in my collection, so I may not make them my normal choice. > > Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated. > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus