[Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a ContaxIia)

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Jeffery,
He is not cheap, but give him a go.

http://www.zeisscamera.com/ContaxIIa/Prices.html

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 3/30/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> You're right. The end of her sleeve seems to be in focus. Well, where the
> heck can I get a Contax IIa rangefinder adjusted? The only camera repair
> guy
> in town seems to have been Katrina'ed into retirement.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don
> Dory
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:27 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] An informal test of my 50/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (on a
> ContaxIia)
>
>
> Jeffery,
> If you look at Susan you will see that part of her sweater looks very
> sharp.
> I suspect the focus was off either because the RF is just a little off or
> that you just missed by a hair.  My Sonnar is pretty sharp at 1.5 in the
> dead center few mm and then loses it toward the edges.  If you can put
> your
> main subject in the middle it looks very good.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 3/30/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have never seriously used my 50/1.5 Sonnar because my Contax IIa
> > isn't terribly light-tight and its rangefinder is out of vertical
> > alignment. However, having just bought a 50/1.5 Sonnar in Leica LTM
> > mount, I tried to see what the lens could do. I don't have any of the
> > fancy equipment that Erwin Puts has, so my lens test consists
> > primarily of walking around the campus annoying people under different
> > lighting situations. Here are four shots from that roll of Tri-X.
> >
> > http://www.400tx.com/Susan.html f/1.5
> > http://www.400tx.com/Michael.html f/2.0
> > http://www.400tx.com/Thomas.html  f/4
> > http://www.400tx.com/Phillip.html f/5.6
> >
> > My knee-jerk reaction is that it is a pretty good lens with nice
> > bokeh, but isn't razor sharp wide open (Susan may be blurry because I
> > was at 1/50). So,
> > it gives me pretty much what my Summarit and Canon 50/1.2 lens give me
> > wide
> > open...less than stellar images. However, closed down just a stop it
> > starts
> > performing fairly well.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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