Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information