Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a ContaxIia)
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Mar 30 18:09:54 2006

I agree. I would be inclined to leave the lens at 4.0 to 5.6 all of the
time.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of mehrdad
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a
ContaxIia)


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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
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