Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan: I did some side by side tests of my Canon EF 35mm f2 and my 35mm Summicron-M. IT lenses are amazingly similar in almost every respect, (even boke), except color balance. You only notice it in neutral grey, like conctere, in shadows. The Canon lens makes it look yellow and the Leica glass makes it look exactly the color it is. Tom At 12:26 PM 1/25/98 -0500, you wrote: >At 12:59 AM 25-01-98 -0800, John McLeod > wrote: >[snip] > >> loaned me an M4 and old 50 >>Summilux for a day -- took Kodachromes of my friend in front of a pink wall >>with both the Summilux and a 50/1.4 Nikkor. The Nikkor rendered the wall >>almost blue/black, the Leica slide came out pink. Hmmmm I said. > >Hmm...how can that difference be due to the lens? I have 5 50mm lenses, >inclusing the two you mentioned, and any differences between them are >subtle, at best. > >Dan C. > > > >