Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/20

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Subject: [Leica] new 75mm M lens
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:30:47 -0700
References: <AANLkTi=5M=3wF=wsPUgqcAmeOVZ7UxbZFZHJH3SsRRVj@mail.gmail.com> <p06230916c894882fa2a0@192.168.1.22>

tom a mentions about a glow wide open , which i translate to focus shift.
all the latest cosina lenses have focus shift syndrome, i wonder why! and
leica is getting away from it as fast as they can.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
archiphoto.com>wrote:

> I had a chance to play a bit with Tom Abrahamsson's copy of the lens. It
> looks very nice, and seems a bargain at the likely price of $7-800US. It's
> about halfway in size and weight between the 75/2 and 75/1.4 of Leica's. 
> The
> hood is not built in, but can be reversed with a unique screw in/clamp on
> two part design that seems a bit fiddly.
>
> I didn't do any rigorous testing, but it seems more like the Summilux in
> character and would make an excellent portrait lens, hence 'Heliar 
> Classic'.
> It seems very sharp though at f/1.8 with very pleasing bokeh. It seems to
> have some focus shift, just like the Summilux, but it's very little.
> Unfortunately, like the 75/2.5, it only focusses to .9m.
>
>
>
>
> At 5:17 PM +1000 8/20/10, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> For anyone interested a friend of mine is the local distributor for
>> Voigtlander products and he has just released details of a new 75mm M
>> mount
>> lens in their range. You can read the detail on his blog here.
>>
>> http://mainlinephoto.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>>
>
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Replies: Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] new 75mm M lens)
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