[Leica] new 75mm M lens

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I had a chance to play a bit with Tom Abrahamsson's copy of the lens. 
It looks very nice, and seems a bargain at the likely price of 
$7-800US. It's about halfway in size and weight between the 75/2 and 
75/1.4 of Leica's. The hood is not built in, but can be reversed with 
a unique screw in/clamp on two part design that seems a bit fiddly.

I didn't do any rigorous testing, but it seems more like the Summilux 
in character and would make an excellent portrait lens, hence 'Heliar 
Classic'. It seems very sharp though at f/1.8 with very pleasing 
bokeh. It seems to have some focus shift, just like the Summilux, but 
it's very little. Unfortunately, like the 75/2.5, it only focusses to 
.9m.



At 5:17 PM +1000 8/20/10, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>For anyone interested a friend of mine is the local distributor for
>Voigtlander products and he has just released details of a new 75mm M mount
>lens in their range. You can read the detail on his blog here.
>
>http://mainlinephoto.wordpress.com/
>
>Cheers
>Geoff

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