[Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me!

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

I'm pretty sure an ex-LUGger (and a damned fine photographer) used to do
that and posted photos from his E-1 and 4/3 lens and claimed it's the
Noctilux or something and no one questioned him :-)

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Phil Forrest
<photo.forrest at earthlink.net>wrote:

> You could have told a little white lie and said it was taken with a 28
> Elmarit and nothing bad about the image capability of the Perar would
> have been said...
> Kind of placebo affect.
>
> Phil Forrest
>
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:44:13 -0800
> Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I usually don't mention the gears used per se. on my photos,
> > so now that I am reasonably happy with the image quality, it probably
> > won't get mentioned much :-)
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Richard,
> > > I think the shots look pretty good.  I think we can all be a little
> > > too critical at times.  An interesting experiment to try would be
> > > to post some more pictures in a little while and not mention the
> > > lenses used...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark Pope,
> > > Swindon, Wilts
> > > UK
> > >
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> > >
> > > On 26/02/2012 04:53, Richard Man wrote:
> > >
> > >> Took the Perar 28 for a bike ride to downtown. Totally disgusted
> > >> at Larry Page new mansion - a 3 story thing that will dwarf even
> > >> the big houses around it.
> > >>
> > >> Anyway, back to the Perar 28. Mark is right in the sense that the
> > >> out of focus area, particularly close to the corners, the OoF
> > >> image just sort of have a shear look to them. I am sure there's a
> > >> technical term for this type
> > >> of aberration. This is a bit unusual lens for me as I mostly have
> > >> late versions of sharp lens, e.g. 50 'lux ASPH, 35 'lux ASPH, 85/2
> > >> Sonnar, 25 ZM
> > >> etc. and of course the XPan lens are also without peer.
> > >>
> > >> So the question is, does the rest of the image quality and the size
> > >> advantage compensates for this flaw? You be the judge:
> > >>
> > >> http://richardmanphoto.com/**PICS/Perar28/<
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/Perar28/>
> > >>
> > >> Still not a whole lot of processing, but I did fix some vignetting
> > >> using LR. One thing about the Perar is that it is quite sharp at
> > >> the focused area. Looking at these images, I am quite happy with
> > >> them. The lens is tiny
> > >> and is a joy to use. It's not for everybody but it works for me.
> > >> If I am going out explicitly for shooting, then a better lens will
> > >> be warranted but
> > >> for the "always have a camera with you" situation, it works quite
> > >> well enough. If you use it on one of the mirrorless cameras with
> > >> smaller sensor,
> > >> then even the corner performance is not going to be an issue.
> > >>
> > >> The Perar 35 does not have this issue and I think is optically
> > >> superior. However, the handling is not as nice as the Perar 28.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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