Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They have to make compromises. Even the wizards of Solms cannot do magic beyond certain points. It has horrible purple fringing around tree branches and the distortion makes it not too useful for full on architectural work. But then again, this is why Leica makes the Super Angulon and the other 21, heck, even Zeiss makes a very good one :-) This is a lens made for low light shooting... On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > That's a surprising amount of distortion for a Leica lens--but an > impressive piece of glass nonetheless. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > > > On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Richard Man wrote: > > > This lens has more distortion than the Super Angulon and about 4 times > the > > size, but if you want to shoot at 1.4, what choice is there? > > http://www.5pmlight.com/PICS/L9995407.jpg > > > > BTW, all but one photos from previous link are shot with this lens as > well. > > http://www.5pmlight.com/PICS/tmp/SFMOMA-people/ > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]