Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] The smallest M lens
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:11:41 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-EFb=wW39vQ0iaQ8nHKdbu2vg3OZe8PnxJTn5K2zB20-w@mail.gmail.com> <35A2C1D6-81BF-413B-BFA1-D107FE6C9B3D@archiphoto.com> <CAF8hL-ENPzKQwpO2=hdW23iBonLn-NVhaEPRGPN5eq5RdGB29w@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuU78fvfGWuFsHjCNadLda5o+sTmO5LdtKihL6GpZfJ5rMs0Q@mail.gmail.com>

Designed and sourced. Not sure who grind the glass elements.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hand made .... as in ground or does this just mean assembled?
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Richard Man
> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> > Well, they are hand made lens. I think of it as a way to support dying
> > breed of craftsman.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
> > archiphoto.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Interesting. Doesn't quite ring my bell for the price, but it certainly
> is
> >> small.
> >>
> >> On the documentation the spelling has been adjusted. Now it's the "Super
> >> Tripret". I'm sure it still works.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2012-02-23, at 7:01 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> >>
> >> > As I mentioned before, I love the Pera 35/3.5 lens. Collapsed, it's
> >> hardly
> >> > larger than a body cap so there really is no reason not to take the M
> >> > everywhere. This is the reason why I'm not interested m 4/3, X10 etc.
> >> Sure,
> >> > it doesn't zoom or has liveview or do video, but comparing to an M9,
> >> > everything else just seems a bit lacking (except for the XPan of
> course
> >> > :-), or an Alpa, or an S2, or...) <-- my opinions only and I am
> talking
> >> > about for myself only. Everyone is entitled to their preferences.
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, the Pera 35 is no longer the smallest M lens. That honor is
> now
> >> on
> >> > another lens that Miyazaki san makes by hand: the Perar 28/4 Super
> >> Tpirlet
> >> > (the first batch all has the misspelling). It doesn't collapse and
> it's
> >> > smaller than the Perar 35 collapsed!
> >> >
> >> > Mine came in today and I just took a few quick test shots. The first
> shot
> >> > here is mainly to see what happens shooting into the Sun and it looks
> >> > pretty good. All photos have been processed a bit using LR. Nothing
> >> heroic.
> >> > I also cropped the last two images a bit.
> >> >
> >> > All in all, looks like another winner. Now it's even more so of
> having no
> >> > excuse not to take the M9 everywhere!
> >> >
> >> > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009641.jpg
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009646.jpg
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009648.jpg
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >> Henning Wulff
> >> henningw at archiphoto.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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