Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 50/1.2 LTM any opinions?
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 03:02:38 +0000

At 11:44 AM 5/30/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Joe,
>  I own a Cannon 50mm 1.2 lens and I would on ly use it in an emergency.
It is
>quite fuzzy and lousy at out the out of focus area. I Bought  a whole
Cannon 7
>outfit from a Pawn shop., for about 35 AUS. That's about $25 US at the
moment.
>The outfit had 2
>Cannon 7 cameras, a 50mm 1.2, a 50mm 1.8, a 35mm f2 and 2 100mm f3.5  black
>lenses with it.
>The best lens from the above is the 35mm F2. This is superb. The rest are OK,
>but the 1.2 is crap. It fits on to all screw mount Leicas direct, But
obscures
>the view finder somewhat. Use an adapter for the M cameras. But if you use a
>lens hood, you'll obscure about a 1/4 of the view finder field. If you
have not
>bought it yet, don't buy it.
>Regards Horst Schmidt

Thanks for the responses I got on this lens. Ok, I'm convinced. It was the
bit about the out-of-focus bits being lousy that really convinced me! Using
a lens this fast wide open I find that the out of focus bits are usually
most of the picture.

Joe Berenbaum