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Subject: Re: [Leica] Summicron M 2/28mm ASPH performance flare/vignetting photos
From: "Y. Li" <liyue@netvigator.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:35:57 +0800
References: <03E63C98-8802-11D7-A816-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca> <001101c31c26$03b78680$0100a8c0@liyue> <00ad01c31c38$3968ed70$70a72350@home> <003101c31c6e$37cd7d60$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> <006101c31c7a$166f8120$6400a8c0@mtwk.sps.mot.com> <001101c31cca$50826440$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> <p0510036dbaec76dddee0@[204.174.36.233]> <005201c31cd0$65cb3f60$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> <p0510036ebaec90f505c5@[204.174.36.233]> <3EC73032.FE4A46D3@transbay.net> <000601c31d74$6cf0fb50$0a01000a@basecamp2win>

Hi Jim, they are great! Do you have other images made with Summicron 28mm
ASPH? I have bad experience with my one. Please have a look at:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=306074

Y. Li


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From: "Jim Laurel" <jplaurel@nwlink.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 3:33 AM
Subject: [Leica] Summicron M 2/28mm ASPH performance flare/vignetting photos


> Have a look at these images:
> http://homepage.mac.com/jplaurel/PhotoAlbum6.html
>
> The image of the Himba woman was made with a Summicron 28 ASPH wide open,
> f2.0 at 1/60th sec around mid-day.  There was barely room for the two of
us
> in her hut.  The intensity of the light streaming in through the sticks
that
> form the hut's structure was intense.  If you've been to the Kaokoveldt in
> December (thier summer), you know what I mean.  The sun is searingly
bright
> and hot, with ambient temps up to 120 degrees F.
>
> Although a JPEG isn't a very good way to evaluate lens performance, I
think
> you can see that the Summicron 28 handled the bright backlighting very
well
> indeed.  And even wide open, I cannot detect any significant light
falloff.
>
> The photo of the young Himba Boy was made with a current generation
> Summicron 50.  Though you wouldn't know it, this was also taken at
mid-day,
> in the shadow of a small hut.  Aperture was probably around f2.8.
>
> --Jim Laurel
> Seattle, WA
>
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