Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Inevitable; the ZM "Biogons" are retrofocus lenses, after all. But they display less of the bad sides of symmetrical wides, including vignetting less, and they actually clear the mirror or shutter of most cameras you can use them on. Marty On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > I went to photograph inside a high tech company today for the Faces of the > SmartWorld > <http://richardmanphoto.com/Portfolio/FacesoftheSmartWorld.pdf>project. > The indoor light is not bright enough for Tri-X and I didn't want > to use a tripod so I was mainly using the M9 with the 50'lux and the 25 > Biogon ZM. > > If you look at the lens diagram, the 25 Biogon ZM does look rather like the > "original" Biogon. Performance wise, it's good. Very good image quality. > But distortion wise, there is no comparison to the true Biogon SWC. The > difference is startling. > > Next time I'm going to bring a tripod... > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information