Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree. I would be inclined to leave the lens at 4.0 to 5.6 all of the time. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of mehrdad Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:03 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a ContaxIia) from thomas going forward, things look good On 3/30/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > I have never seriously used my 50/1.5 Sonnar because my Contax IIa > isn't terribly light-tight and its rangefinder is out of vertical > alignment. However, having just bought a 50/1.5 Sonnar in Leica LTM > mount, I tried to see what the lens could do. I don't have any of the > fancy equipment that Erwin Puts has, so my lens test consists > primarily of walking around the campus annoying people under different > lighting situations. Here are four shots from that roll of Tri-X. > > http://www.400tx.com/Susan.html f/1.5 > http://www.400tx.com/Michael.html f/2.0 > http://www.400tx.com/Thomas.html f/4 > http://www.400tx.com/Phillip.html f/5.6 > > My knee-jerk reaction is that it is a pretty good lens with nice > bokeh, but isn't razor sharp wide open (Susan may be blurry because I > was at 1/50). So, it gives me pretty much what my Summarit and Canon > 50/1.2 lens give me wide open...less than stellar images. However, > closed down just a stop it starts performing fairly well. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information