[Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so?

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

I just played with some 35mm R lenses recently.  The Mandler version
of the lens is really great.  It's very flare resistant with light
sources in the frame, has excellent colour reproduction and few
serious flaws.  It occasionally flares when there are diffuse, bright
sources of light outside the frame, much like the 50/2 Summicron-M
six-element versions.  With an SLR you can usually see the flare
before you shoot.  The Summilux-R is better until about f2.8-4, where
they become equal, and has better close up and near-far performance
because of its floating element.  But the Summilux has more optical
vignetting, and has a 67mm filter thread, and is much heavier, instead
of 55 for the Summicron.

Marty



On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Are there shooters using the 35mm f2 Summicron-R lens out there?
>
> What do you think of it?
>
> ...Vick
>
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