[Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me!

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Thanks! I don't drive fancy cars but I like looking at them. With this
particular image, I like the contrast with the tiny Smart car across of the
street from it. On hindsight, I probably should spend a little more time
just capturing the Audi :-)

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:45 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Richard,
> The lens sure looks good to me.  Its performance is pretty nice,
> especially on the Audi R8, a lovely auto. ;)
>
> gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:53:45 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> 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>
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