[Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a Contax Iia)

[msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)]

from thomas going forward, things look good

On 3/30/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> I have never seriously used my 50/1.5 Sonnar because my Contax IIa isn't
> terribly light-tight and its rangefinder is out of vertical alignment.
> However, having just bought a 50/1.5 Sonnar in Leica LTM mount, I tried to
> see what the lens could do. I don't have any of the fancy equipment that
> Erwin Puts has, so my lens test consists primarily of walking around the
> campus annoying people under different lighting situations. Here are four
> shots from that roll of Tri-X.
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> http://www.400tx.com/Susan.html f/1.5
> http://www.400tx.com/Michael.html f/2.0
> http://www.400tx.com/Thomas.html  f/4
> http://www.400tx.com/Phillip.html f/5.6
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> My knee-jerk reaction is that it is a pretty good lens with nice bokeh, but
> isn't razor sharp wide open (Susan may be blurry because I was at 1/50). 
> So,
> it gives me pretty much what my Summarit and Canon 50/1.2 lens give me wide
> open...less than stellar images. However, closed down just a stop it starts
> performing fairly well.
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> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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