[Leica] M Lenses on GF-1

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Henning,

Wow. Impressive images!

Though not in the same class as yours, here's an image I took yesterday
evening with the 50/1.4 Summilux. My golfing buddy is 3 handicap. 

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/drodgers/GF1/FoxDen.jpg.html

I'm going to make an 11x14 print of this today. Based on viewing actual
pixels I have no doubt that it will look crisp enlarged to that size.
(My ball can bee seen just to the left of the flagstick.) 

FWIW, my friend made the long putt from the fringe for birdie. I should
have shot video, which, as you know, I could have with the GF-1. Haven't
tried it yet, though. :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+drodgers=casefarms.com at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+drodgers=casefarms.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Henning Wulff
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] M Lenses on GF-1

The 45-200 is decent, mostly in the same way that the 100-400 Canon 
is, and actually slightly better. It's just not as good as the 14-45, 
or especially the 7-14 which are class leading and outstanding.

Not that you can tell much from 800 pixel images, but these were shot 
with the 45-200:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/y/1010699.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/y/1010771.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/various/P1010137.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/various/P1010167.jpg.html

The last one has intentional vignetting added. The lens vignettes 
noticeably, especially at the long end wide open, but it's not really 
severe and you can fix it easily in Lightroom.

After processing the files I really have no issue with the quality, 
but they do need a bit more tweaking than the files from the shorter 
zooms. There's a new 100-300 coming sometime later this year and I'll 
be watching that one for its performance.

The 'poorest' lens in the Panasonic lineup is probably the 14-140 
which is the kit zoom with the GH1, and even that one is quite good; 
it's certainly better than such megazooms as the 18-200 Nikkor.