[Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

To me this is a scan of a size (1701 x 2048)  which has some meaning;
Unlike 99.9 of the posts of the lug which has people saying:
"this lens took this picture ant that lens took that picture"
Then people I assume run out and buy the lens having seen the shot.
With rez good for a postage stamp. Could have been done with a cardboard
throw away digital camera. Once they start making them.
Looking at this image I get what I think is a real feel for the lens;
What it can do. Its real exciting and a real pleasure to behold.

Is it the sharpest lens in the history of photography?
I think so.

I'm looking at eye lashes;
Individual ones, you can count them.
And the split ends at the ends of them

Indoors wide open hand held.


That's sharp.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:57:19 -0400
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example
> 
> Just grabbed this one last night.
> 
>   http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/3358536031/sizes/o/
> 
> (Sure, it's handheld in room light at ISO 1250, so it's nothing like as
> preternaturally detailed as that frame Tina showed;  but this shows the
> lens's usefulness for the way I've been working).
> 
> This is part of the WFMU set I already pimped, so you needn't follow the
> link if you've already been there.
> 
> By the way, about the M8 at 1250 -- does it seem to anyone else that
> high ISOs look a lot better than they did when the camera was released?
> I'm thinking they've done some firmware magic or something.
> 
>  -Jeff
> 
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