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Subject: [Leica] Re: LUG Re: 12mm closest focus?
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Sun Dec 18 08:21:35 2005
References: <200512132120.jBDLH9T7052402@server1.waverley.reid.org> <43A5897B.5040808@telefonica.net>

Hi Felix,

Could you please show the fall-off you experience with the 12mm, in a  
couple of shots? From whom is the degrading filter available?
And could you display the improvement please ................... in  
other words, a before and after situation.

Thanks,
B.
The Hague, The Netherlands.

On 18-dec-2005, at 17:08, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote:

>> Anybody know the closest focus on the 12?
>> I think it will be my stocking stuffer au year.
>> I'd imagine using at mainly at its closest focus on my L and would  
>> hope it's
>> darned close. Otherwise most of the image might tend to get minute  
>> and
>> require a loupe.
>> The widest lens ever make for 35mm photography?
>> Gee I'd not being the first on my block!
>> I could specialize in shooting group shots in small closets.
>> Just pack them in there like clowns in Volkswagen.
>>
>>
>> Mark Rabiner
>> Photography
>> Portland Oregon
>> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
>
> Mark
>
> A little bit late but I was out last week. The Voigtl?nder Ultra  
> Wide Heliar 12mm f5.6 is an extraordinary lens with some  
> outstanding features and some important defects. The closest  
> distance seems to be o,3 meters but in fact with the hyperfocal at  
> f16 you have *all* in focus. It's by no means the widest available  
> 35mm lens -this correspond to the huge 6mm f2.8 Nikkor fisheye who  
> see behind the camera- but it's in fact the rectilinear wider lens  
> ever built. It's followed by the Nikkor 13mm f3.5 another legendary  
> lens and the not less well known Hologon 15mm for Leica or 16mm f8  
> for Contax G. Voigtl?nder has in catalog another excellent 15mm for  
> Leica.
>
> It's unbelievable getting such scarce distortion and very good  
> resolution but the falloff of the lens is too hugely unbelievable  
> and the problem cannot be arranged closing stops but with a special  
> degrading filter not supplied by the firm.
>
> For some special purposes is *the* lens to be used and mine -I own  
> almost every mentioned lens- is always in my M7 bag.
>
> Regards.
>
> Felix
>
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Replies: Reply from clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni) ([Leica] Re: LUG Re: 12mm closest focus?)
Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: LUG Re: 12mm closest focus?)
In reply to: Message from FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana) ([Leica] Re: LUG Re: 12mm closest focus?)