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

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Subject: [Leica] The smallest M lens
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:26:32 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-EFb=wW39vQ0iaQ8nHKdbu2vg3OZe8PnxJTn5K2zB20-w@mail.gmail.com> <35A2C1D6-81BF-413B-BFA1-D107FE6C9B3D@archiphoto.com>

Well, they are hand made lens. I think of it as a way to support dying
breed of craftsman.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
archiphoto.com>wrote:

> 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
> henningw at archiphoto.com
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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