[Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me!

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

You could have told a little white lie and said it was taken with a 28
Elmarit and nothing bad about the image capability of the Perar would
have been said...
Kind of placebo affect.

Phil Forrest



On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:44:13 -0800
Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I usually don't mention the gears used per se. on my photos,
> so now that I am reasonably happy with the image quality, it probably
> won't get mentioned much :-)
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Richard,
> > I think the shots look pretty good.  I think we can all be a little
> > too critical at times.  An interesting experiment to try would be
> > to post some more pictures in a little while and not mention the
> > lenses used...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > On 26/02/2012 04:53, Richard Man wrote:
> >
> >> Took the Perar 28 for a bike ride to downtown. Totally disgusted
> >> at Larry Page new mansion - a 3 story thing that will dwarf even
> >> the big houses around it.
> >>
> >> Anyway, back to the Perar 28. Mark is right in the sense that the
> >> out of focus area, particularly close to the corners, the OoF
> >> image just sort of have a shear look to them. I am sure there's a
> >> technical term for this type
> >> of aberration. This is a bit unusual lens for me as I mostly have
> >> late versions of sharp lens, e.g. 50 'lux ASPH, 35 'lux ASPH, 85/2
> >> Sonnar, 25 ZM
> >> etc. and of course the XPan lens are also without peer.
> >>
> >> So the question is, does the rest of the image quality and the size
> >> advantage compensates for this flaw? You be the judge:
> >>
> >> http://richardmanphoto.com/**PICS/Perar28/<http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/Perar28/>
> >>
> >> Still not a whole lot of processing, but I did fix some vignetting
> >> using LR. One thing about the Perar is that it is quite sharp at
> >> the focused area. Looking at these images, I am quite happy with
> >> them. The lens is tiny
> >> and is a joy to use. It's not for everybody but it works for me.
> >> If I am going out explicitly for shooting, then a better lens will
> >> be warranted but
> >> for the "always have a camera with you" situation, it works quite
> >> well enough. If you use it on one of the mirrorless cameras with
> >> smaller sensor,
> >> then even the corner performance is not going to be an issue.
> >>
> >> The Perar 35 does not have this issue and I think is optically
> >> superior. However, the handling is not as nice as the Perar 28.
> >>
> >>
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