Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Decisions, decisions... But as I mentioned, I am not buying now. Sonny's advice is sound- sooner or later. Wendy On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote: > 2010-02-26-23:59:08 Wendy Thurman: > > While of course a Leica 35 cron is, well, a Leica, I would > > appreciate opinions or experiences any of you may have with this lens. > It's > > affordably priced and appears to be generally well-regarded. > > I really like the lens. It seems to me like, if the pre-ASPH 35mm > Summicron were a little bit sharper all around... this is what it'd > look like. > > A downside is that it sticks easily twice as far out from the camera > as the pre-ASPH Summicron. And I'm not sure how well its all-aluminum > bones will last in the fullness of time. But the smoothness and > coherence of out-of-focus areas, taken with the fine detail of stuff > in-focus, is something it does very very well. Possibly more well > than anything else that comes to mind. > > The 35mm Summilux ASPH (which is a workhorse for me) can get kind of > jangly as things go out of focus. > > Not sure about the Summicron ASPH. > > I bet this Zeiss doesn't resolve quite as finely at f/2.0 as the Leica > Summicron ASPH. The Zeiss seems to have a particular sweet spot at > f/4.0... the picture below is an example. I'd leave it at f/4 all > day if I could. You see how detailed teh little birdie's feathers and > beak and little birdy feet are, and how Robert's face behind the bird > is softened, but maintains its shapes and shadings. > > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/LUGmisc1/11359884_aTkKE#797916850_MUA4X-A-LB > > I'll leave access to the full-res image (size "O" for Original) available > for > a few days so you can pixel-peep. > > -J > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >