Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There have always been plenty of very small footprint non descript Leica lenes which add little to the weight and bulk of an M body yet give full quality out to the edges as in the kind of quality one gets into Leica for. And I'm not even talking about the collapable Elmar a lens in chrome version my X has gotten a LOT of use out of. She also uses or used the colorable 90 elmar. But the 50 works on an M9. My 50 Summicron is light and small. My 45 Summicron C is lighter and smaller. My 35 Summicron ASPH would be even lighter and smaller if it were not the ASPH. And the summilux you can hardly tell the difference. Half the Leica glass out there tends to be tiny. The default filter size is 39. Those are my main filters for my Leica glass. I have an old tiny 35 Summaron I could use on an M with an adaptor. I got it for my LTM system I'm not sure what the cache is for this Pera 35/3.5 lens. What it opens up for the photographer that he didn't have opened up for him or her before. Mr. Miyazaki may believe that a well designed triplet exceeds a Tessar but this one gives laughable results at the edges wide open. It looks like shot through a car window at an angle. For all the big bucks and rhetoric you get a Japanese hand built Holga. And at the same price a new chrome 50 Silver Elmar went for a few years ago when we got one. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:05:00 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The smallest M lens > > Nice images, Richard. Looks like a winner. Is this RF coupled? > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:01 PM > Subject: [Leica] The smallest M lens > > >> 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> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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