Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To add my 2 cents here, I have the older version of the 19mm. The pictures it makes are stunning. The color rendition looks like you have a polarizer built in. If (a big if) the camera is level anything at the edges is perfectly straight; there is not perceptable curvature at the edges. On the negative side, there is noticeable vignetting at less than f/4. The best setting seems to be f/5.6, which is not such a problem if you are shooting landscape. People at the edges do not appear distorted, just immensely fat <g>. It is very heavy and very big. It can take a filter, but why bother? It seems to find the sun, and it does have flare problems. All that being said, I love it. Robert Rose