Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica M Stuff
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:54 -0700
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True. Unfortunately, there is no close-to-zero distortion option for 
the digital M's. Both extra low distortion options are not 
retrofocus, and thus have exit pupils too far back to let the 
microlenses do their work properly.

 From the MTF graphs the new 21 looks as good as anything ever made at 
that focal length, but it's not perfect :-). Still has distortion, 
the sagittal and tangential curves don't cover each other, they're 
not all above 95 at 40lp/mm, and there is significant light falloff. 
When will they ever make a perfect lens??? :-)

As the 21 focal length is one of my favourites, I'm still interested. 
My CV would go, as it's my weakest performer.


At 12:42 AM -0400 6/22/11, Tim Gray wrote:
>On Jun 21, 2011 at 09:34 PM -0700, mehrdad wrote:
>>do i feel a like bashing every time there is news from leica on a new
>>camera/lens? why is that?
>
>Haha.  I was just hoping for something different with this lens. 
>While a lot of Leica's prices are astronomical now, many of the 
>lenses they offer are pretty amazing and/or offer something unique.
>
>There are just some VERY good options at 21mm.
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       Henning J. Wulff
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