[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/2/2020: lens testing

[Don Dory]

The eyes still have it.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 1:18 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Yesterday I put the 90mm Leica Tele-Elmarit on my Panasonic GX80, thus
> mixing technologies 50 years apart. I wanted to see how well I could focus
> this lens manually at close distances and wide apertures.
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> I first tried just a shot of my desk, at f2.8 and the minimum focusing
> distance of 1 meter:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-N6S2jGV/A
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> But then I decided to look for more interesting test subjects, and as
> usual, my Greek colleague Eri was a willing victim. This is also at around
> 1 meter, but I did close down one stop to f4:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-RP9dk47/A
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> I think the GX80 is a good platform for this lens, one of my favourite
> Leica lenses.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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