Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter - very interesting, thanks for doing the comparison. I am tempted to look for a Canon lens for portraits such as this. Hugh On 8-Aug-07, at 2:46 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > Last weekend I took a few M8 shots of some friends as we hiked in a > Seattle park along the water in the late afternoon. Among those > pictures were two, similarly lit, of the same three people, but > taken with two different lenses. The size of the faces on the > images are almost the same, inviting comparison. > > One lens was an old Canon Serenar 50/1.8 from the 1950s, recently > CLAed by DAG. The other was a current 35 Summilux ASPH. > > Take a look at these 100% crops of a face. Put them side by side > if you can. This is not a resolution contest. It's simply a > comparison of how the lenses draw, under similar (not absolutely > identical) conditions. > > Here is the old Canon 50/1.8, 1/90 at f/11 > http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/L1001098-1to1-50-1_8Canon-w.jpg > > And here is the 35 Summilux ASPH, 1/180 at f/8. > http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/L1001109-1to1-35LuxAsph-w.jpg