Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They are. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: > 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-L1009641.jpg> >> >> >> http://richardmanphoto.com/**PICS/20120223-L1009646.jpg<http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009646.jpg> >> >> >> http://richardmanphoto.com/**PICS/20120223-L1009648.jpg<http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120223-L1009648.jpg> >> >> -- >> // richard >> <http://www.richardmanphoto.**com<http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> > >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>