Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison, the CV 12 is a wonderful lens, beautifully finished too http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Image11_10_edited_2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Image1_4_edited_2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Image14_5_edited_2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Image4_18_edited_2.jpg.html admittedly it often results in heavily cropped at top and bottom images, and you have to keep your fingers/knuckles well behind it - it is VERY wide Cheers Douglas Henning Wulff wrote: > At 8:57 AM -0500 4/25/07, Harrison McClary wrote: > >> Ok...I am thinking about buying this lens. Do those of you who have >> it like it? From what I have read it is a very nice little lens, and >> I admit the radical POV of a 12 intrigues me. I have a 16 for my EOS >> so I am not too interested in the VC 15, if I am going to go wide, I >> want even wider than what I already have. >> >> Thanks for any input as to the quality/fun of this lens. If you have >> some sample photos I'd love to see them also. >> >> -- >> Harrison McClary > > > Hi Harrison, > > I've had the 12 since it came out, and I also use the 12-24 Sigma on > the 5D. Optically, the 12 is better except of course with respect to > vignetting, but they are both fully useable. I've used the CV lens > with a center filter at times > (http://archiphoto.com/Various/RD1vignette/source/12.htm), but usually > it gets used without. I don't have any pictures posted with the CV, > but I do have a couple taken with the Sigma: > > http://archiphoto.com/Various/China/source/img_3145.htm > http://archiphoto.com/Various/China/source/img_3550.htm > > Besides the usual architectural stuff I've also used the 12 CV for > shooting wildlife. Birds in particular. Who needs those 560's? :-) > > In 2000 I was in the Galapagos, shortly after I got the lens. One > local species, the red-footed booby perches mostly in bushes, and I > mean 'in'. If you shoot from the outside you sometimes only get > branches. So I took the camera with 12mm lens, set it on 18" or less, > stuck the whole thing into the bush and took 'environmental > portraits'. The birds might have been a bit put off by someone poking > their hand into their bush, but they didn't move. I'll have to see if > I can scan one of those shots. I don't remember how well they turned > out, though. >