Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice images, Richard. Looks like a winner. Is this RF coupled? Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:01 PM Subject: [Leica] The smallest M lens > As I mentioned before, I love the Pera 35/3.5 lens. Collapsed, it's hardly > larger than a body cap so there really is no reason not to take the M > everywhere. This is the reason why I'm not interested m 4/3, X10 etc. > Sure, > it doesn't zoom or has liveview or do video, but comparing to an M9, > everything else just seems a bit lacking (except for the XPan of course > :-), or an Alpa, or an S2, or...) <-- my opinions only and I am talking > about for myself only. Everyone is entitled to their preferences. > > Anyway, the Pera 35 is no longer the smallest M lens. That honor is now on > another lens that Miyazaki san makes by hand: the Perar 28/4 Super Tpirlet > (the first batch all has the misspelling). It doesn't collapse and it's > smaller than the Perar 35 collapsed! > > Mine came in today and I just took a few quick test shots. The first shot > here is mainly to see what happens shooting into the Sun and it looks > pretty good. All photos have been processed a bit using LR. Nothing > heroic. > I also cropped the last two images a bit. > > All in all, looks like another winner. Now it's even more so of having no > excuse not to take the M9 everywhere! > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009641.jpg > > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009646.jpg > > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009648.jpg > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >