[Leica] The smallest M lens

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

The 50 Elmar, any 35 Summaron, and especially the 35 pre-asph 'Lux are
certainly not known for their corner performance at all. Even the 90
Elmar is weak in the corners until it's stopped down. I'm willing to
wager the 35 perar holds its own against the pre-asph Lux or either
Summaron simply by virtue of modern design but also because those old
lenses are not sharp across the plane until f/5.6 or even f/8.
Granted, I love my Leica lenses because of their aberrations but to
claim that Leica can do no wrong in comparison to this newcomer that is
amazingly tiny then to bring up the very lenses that have the
aberrations you complain about in the new one is just plain funny.

Phil Forrest



On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:36:17 -0500
Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> There have always been plenty of very small footprint non descript
> Leica lenes which add little to the weight and bulk of an M body yet
> give full quality out to the edges as in the kind of quality one gets
> into Leica for. And I'm not even talking about the collapable Elmar a
> lens in chrome version my X has gotten a LOT of use out of. She also
> uses or used the colorable 90 elmar. But the 50 works on an M9.
> My 50 Summicron is light and small. My 45 Summicron C is lighter and
> smaller. My 35 Summicron ASPH would be even lighter and smaller if it
> were not the ASPH. And the summilux you can hardly tell the
> difference. Half the Leica glass out there tends to be tiny.
> The default filter size is 39. Those are my main filters for my Leica
> glass. I have an old tiny 35 Summaron I could use on an M with an
> adaptor. I got it for my LTM system
> I'm not sure what the cache is for this Pera 35/3.5 lens.
> What it opens up for the photographer that he didn't have opened up
> for him or her before.
> Mr. Miyazaki may believe that a well designed triplet exceeds a
> Tessar but this one gives laughable results at the edges wide open.
> It looks like shot through a car window at an angle. For all the big
> bucks and rhetoric you get a Japanese hand built Holga.
> And at the same price a new chrome 50 Silver Elmar went for a few
> years ago when we got one.
> 



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