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 p.2 #6 · Leica 50mm f/3.5 Elmar | |
Just for fun I just shot a BW (yellow filter) and a color with my 2.8 50, the lens is quite sharp, not apo summicron sharp, at F8 or so. I have a good copy of this (1956 vintage) clear glass, not much dust, no cleaning marks, opens and collapses well, clean blades w/o oil and looks good everything I wanted when I got it. I dont use it that often, but you will note the lens in color blues the sky more than the eye sees, the resolution and render of the distant mountains has in my evaluation reached its limit of capacity in IQ and so falls short, for scenery, closer in doesn't matter. In BW it is very nice, of course on film none this matters the lens is good on for that as it was designed but 60 mp pushes it the limit. I have never used the 3.5 version, so Fred I will be curious what you show with it.
Addition- just for fun I reshot one scene with the 2.8 elmar 50 and compared with the LLL rigid, a 1966 leica rigid, the LLL elcan, the voigtlander 3.5 50, and the LLL 1966, Z21, SPII-rigid all at F5.6 in terms of image quality the voigtlander is more detailed and best, as Fred noted the LLL rigid, leica rigid and elcan are quite similar maybe small differences in sharpness across the DOF from near to far, the SP2 and the elmar was not far behind, and the 1966 LLL less sharp Z21 the least sharp, but in my opinion the image produced by the LLL 1966 is the most visually interesting which is the strength of this lens, even when used at F5.6 it is still distinctive, the Z21 has an interesting render across the DOF, and the little SPII is sharper than both Z21 and 1966, but still has character even 5.6 and is less massive, a pocket companion sometimes with my apo summicron for two ends of spectrum the almost perfect clinical-and a not so perfect lens both 50s and E39. Anyways the little elmar is quite nice lens and given it is 60 years old, remarkable even just for that I probably should use it more often, it gets overlooked.
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