Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, Except for the first one, the BW images are great. I find the color in the last two to be oversaturated. Just my 2 cts. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:53 PM Subject: [Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me! > Took the Perar 28 for a bike ride to downtown. Totally disgusted at Larry > Page new mansion - a 3 story thing that will dwarf even the big houses > around it. > > Anyway, back to the Perar 28. Mark is right in the sense that the out of > focus area, particularly close to the corners, the OoF image just sort of > have a shear look to them. I am sure there's a technical term for this > type > of aberration. This is a bit unusual lens for me as I mostly have late > versions of sharp lens, e.g. 50 'lux ASPH, 35 'lux ASPH, 85/2 Sonnar, 25 > ZM > etc. and of course the XPan lens are also without peer. > > So the question is, does the rest of the image quality and the size > advantage compensates for this flaw? You be the judge: > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/Perar28/ > > Still not a whole lot of processing, but I did fix some vignetting using > LR. One thing about the Perar is that it is quite sharp at the focused > area. Looking at these images, I am quite happy with them. The lens is > tiny > and is a joy to use. It's not for everybody but it works for me. If I am > going out explicitly for shooting, then a better lens will be warranted > but > for the "always have a camera with you" situation, it works quite well > enough. If you use it on one of the mirrorless cameras with smaller > sensor, > then even the corner performance is not going to be an issue. > > The Perar 35 does not have this issue and I think is optically superior. > However, the handling is not as nice as the Perar 28. > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >