Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] The smallest M lens
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:23:25 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-EFb=wW39vQ0iaQ8nHKdbu2vg3OZe8PnxJTn5K2zB20-w@mail.gmail.com>

Interesting. Doesn't quite ring my bell for the price, but it certainly is 
small.

On the documentation the spelling has been adjusted. Now it's the "Super 
Tripret". I'm sure it still works.


On 2012-02-23, at 7:01 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> As I mentioned before, I love the Pera 35/3.5 lens. Collapsed, it's hardly
> larger than a body cap so there really is no reason not to take the M
> everywhere. This is the reason why I'm not interested m 4/3, X10 etc. Sure,
> it doesn't zoom or has liveview or do video, but comparing to an M9,
> everything else just seems a bit lacking (except for the XPan of course
> :-), or an Alpa, or an S2, or...) <-- my opinions only and I am talking
> about for myself only. Everyone is entitled to their preferences.
> 
> Anyway, the Pera 35 is no longer the smallest M lens. That honor is now on
> another lens that Miyazaki san makes by hand: the Perar 28/4 Super Tpirlet
> (the first batch all has the misspelling). It doesn't collapse and it's
> smaller than the Perar 35 collapsed!
> 
> Mine came in today and I just took a few quick test shots. The first shot
> here is mainly to see what happens shooting into the Sun and it looks
> pretty good. All photos have been processed a bit using LR. Nothing heroic.
> I also cropped the last two images a bit.
> 
> All in all, looks like another winner. Now it's even more so of having no
> excuse not to take the M9 everywhere!
> 
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009641.jpg
> 
> 
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009646.jpg
> 
> 
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009648.jpg
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> 
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Henning Wulff
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