Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Voightlander 15mm
From: sndycrtr at gmail.com (sandy carter)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:18:49 -0800
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Thank you, Jeff. I was wondering about the lens on the digital M9 vs the
film M6.

I'm not much of an extra wide angle user, sometimes though, they can be fun!

thanks again for your input.

cheers!

sandy

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:

> 2011-01-13-20:09:16 sandy carter:
> > Anyone use this lens on an M9. If so, any problem or concerns?
>
> Any pictures in this set
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157625428225585/with/5244230080/
>
> which are exteriors and marked as having been taken with an M9, were
> taken with the C/V 15 (the newer rangefinder-coupled M-mount version).
>
> I apologise that nothing here is high-res enough to peep at the pixels.
>
> My impression: it's perfectly okay for the price - it costs
> practically nothing, compared to Leica glass - but the pictures never
> seem to have that crackling energy of microcontrast and subtle detail
> you can sometimes get with Leica glass.
>
> Which costs a million dollars.
>
> And this lens may do better on film than it does on pixels.  Digital
> sensors make their own demands.
>
> I tried a fiddling with which Leica lens I'd lie to the the camera and
> say was on it, to try to find a good corner-color-correction match,
> but haven't yet found nirvana there.
>
> I don't really know how to make an ultrawide sing, don't use them
> much, and just can't justify putting money in a Leica lens this wide;
> so this is as much as I'm willing to buy right now, to have available
> if needed.  I still consider it worth the price to me, but I'm not in
> love with it.  Which may be entirely my fault for not putting in
> enough effort to figure out how to get the most out of it.
>
>  -Jeff
>
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Replies: Reply from leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson) ([Leica] Voightlander 15mm)
In reply to: Message from sndycrtr at gmail.com (sandy carter) ([Leica] Voightlander 15mm)
Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] Voightlander 15mm)