Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/06

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Subject: [Leica] 5D shot
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Oct 6 15:44:52 2005
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>  > I ended up with the 1.4, because it has much high build quality. The 
>>  1.8 has a plastic lens mount!
>>  I've read that they are about equally sharp, but the 1.8 has some 
>>  nasty bokeh.
>
>watch for barrel distortion.  Looks like the bars of your budgies' 
>cage are bowed out at the edges.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com

Almost identical to the pre-ASPH Summilux-M and earlier Summilux-R 
(haven't tried the current on). Also the Pentax 50/1.4's, Minolta 
50/1.4's, Contax and Contarex 50/1.4's.

Not hard to understand why, as they all use essentially the same formula.


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