[Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2010-03-26-15:38:36 Sonny Carter:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:
> > The GH1 with the pre-ASPH 35mm Summicron is a cute little package.
> > That always was a sweet little lens.  I don't know if it's officially
> > a pancake -- not sure what officially constitutes pancakeness -- but
> > it certainly isn't more than a waffle.
> 
> The "yeah-but" here is that you are out there in portrait land angle-wise,
> in that your 35mm is lika a 70mm with the dof of a 35mm.

Taken as read.  And one of the things I use the GF1 for, when it's the
second camera in the bag, is as the little camera with the built-in
tele converter which doesn't lose lens speed.

> I'm not denying it will be a wonderful picture taker, but you will have to
> step back, way back, and you are only getting the succulent middle of the
> lens.

Absolutely.  And the middles of some of the older, "traditional"
pre-ASPH Leica lenses are particularly succulent.  The pre-ASPH 50mm
Summilux's deficiencies (if you're anti-vignetting-and-softness, which
I'm not always) are in the corners; in the middle it still kicks ass.

I like the succulent middles of lenses and perfectly cooked steaks.

 -J