Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try the 50/0.95 Canon lens at full aperture. It has such flare and aberrations it's past bad and all the way to cute! I use one at f 0.95 for B&W waist-up vertical format portraits. It makes the subject look like a saint with a "glory" (halo for non-Catholics). Stop down to 2.0 or smaller and it becomes an ordinary normal lens that weighs as much as a typewriter (ancient analog instrument, pre gen X). JB - ----- Original Message ----- From: <Gaifana@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:21 PM Subject: [Leica] Flare machines: 5cm Summar v Canon 1.2 > > Aside from the difference in speed, has anyone noticed a huge difference > in the way these two perform? I have both, and I have observed that at f/2, > both have quite a bit of flare. I would give the edge to Canon on subject > isolation, standard filter size, and standard apertures, but the prewar > Summar is a pretty lens in the negs... >