[Leica] When a Biogon is no match for THE Biogon

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

zM Biogons are not retrofocus? This is for the Leica M, not one of the ZE
or ZF

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Inevitable; the ZM "Biogons" are retrofocus lenses, after all.  But
> they display less of the bad sides of symmetrical wides, including
> vignetting less, and they actually clear the mirror or shutter of most
> cameras you can use them on.
>
> Marty
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
> richardmanphoto.com>
> wrote:
> > I went to photograph inside a high tech company today for the Faces of
> the
> > SmartWorld <
> http://richardmanphoto.com/Portfolio/FacesoftheSmartWorld.pdf>project.
> > The indoor light is not bright enough for Tri-X and I didn't want
> > to use a tripod so I was mainly using the M9 with the 50'lux and the 25
> > Biogon ZM.
> >
> > If you look at the lens diagram, the 25 Biogon ZM does look rather like
> the
> > "original" Biogon. Performance wise, it's good. Very good image quality.
> > But distortion wise, there is no comparison to the true Biogon SWC. The
> > difference is startling.
> >
> > Next time I'm going to bring a tripod...
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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