I spent a little time at McCormick Place in Chicago this afternoon. I had to visit a client exhibit but also wanted to see if I could pull off a few covert shots in competitive exhibits. This is with the M8 and CV15...the CV15 is a very nice little lens.
kidigital wrote:
I spent a little time at McCormick Place in Chicago this afternoon. I had to visit a client exhibit but also wanted to see if I could pull off a few covert shots in competitive exhibits. This is with the M8 and CV15...the CV15 is a very nice little lens.
Kurt
That is a great shot. The colors and people are just right. I guess you can blame half of it on the display designer.
Allen, with the little 15mm attached and no flash, no one even looked twice. With a dslr, I would have been escorted out of a few exhibits very quickly. Even the point and shoots were being shown the exit (flash and the few second delay to frame, etc.)
Robert, you are absolutely right, some of the exhibits were very eye-popping.
Thanks Guy.
I was using the VC 21mm finder Cameraquest sent with the lens.
kidigital wrote:
Allen, with the little 15mm attached and no flash, no one even looked twice. With a dslr, I would have been escorted out of a few exhibits very quickly. Even the point and shoots were being shown the exit (flash and the few second delay to frame, etc.)
Robert, you are absolutely right, some of the exhibits were very eye-popping.
Thanks Guy.
I was using the VC 21mm finder Cameraquest sent with the lens.
I use the Leica 21,24,28 finder which I have had for a number of years. Expensive but worth it.
Since the CV 15 is actually 19.95 on the M8, the 21mm finder view works almost perfectly. Similarly the Leica 21mm lens is 27.93mm on the M8 so this is also covered with the 28mm view of the finder. I now just leave it on the M8 alll the time as I find both the CV 15 and the Leica 21mm asph very fine tools for what I do (mostly landscapes.
My 12mm has a slightly softer right edge, which it was already visible on the R-D1.
I'm waiting for my M8 replacement (probably this week) to better determine if I have to get another sample of the CV 12.
Otherwise the lens is just great.
Marco
You may be right Guy, but I still think it's kinda irritating.
I've gotten my first roll that I've shot with CV 28mm utron processed and it seems to be a REALLY nice lens! Should be very interesting for all you M8 owners.
woodyspedden wrote:
I find both the CV 15 and the Leica 21mm asph very fine tools for what I do (mostly landscapes.
I think you'll find the whole line of compact/pancake CV lenses excellent for landscapes: the 15, 21, 28/3.5, 35/2.5P2, 40/1.4, several of the 50s (2.5 or the collapsible 3.5). They're all quite excellent when stopped down on a tripod, and a lens simply can't get much smaller.
I'm so prowd. I thought I was doing something wrong, maybe being too cheap to buy bright enough lamps!
Anyway, here is 1250 shot with 28mm...
pretty good,
'...except if they don't change out that fast read-out board I'm gonna send this back so fast their head will spin. How could they DO this Such a great camera and they totally louse it up with this #$%%# problem. I am really FROSTED and I won't take it any more....."
... huh?.... what was that? They're changing the board?...for FREE?
Guy Mancuso wrote:
Marco if you stop buying leica glass a nice Flat Panel Plasma hanging on the wall maybe nice to have.
Hey Guy, don't you know that's the sound which makes for the better movie's experience ?
Ok, I admit... it's only that I prefer that Ansel Adams print hanging on the wall... .. and that 12 mm makes my old good JVC smaller than it really is!.. well.. not by much...
Marco, great shots - that CV was already on my list of 'wants', but until I get the friggin M8 there seems little point. Oh..... come on Leica..... make some more..... please... pretty please....
Guy, great shots as usual....
gogopix, that streaking is really bad, so bad in fact that you need to throw that camera away. I have a nice friendly recycling bin I could lend you.... with my mailing address already printed on it...
Marco wrote:
Hey Guy, don't you know that's the sound which makes for the better movie's experience ?
Ok, I admit... it's only that I prefer that Ansel Adams print hanging on the wall... .. and that 12 mm makes my old good JVC smaller than it really is!.. well.. not by much...
Yes Robert, good catch!
It's a 300/2.8L IS which I'm going to sell.
I'm selling all my Canon stuff to go M8 and DMR.
I will probably receive my M8 replacement this week, while for the new DMR, after have passed on the demo unit due to returning issues, I have still to wait about two weeks.
As for the 280... I've heard many raves about the 280/4 Apo and indeed I just bought a used one from a forum member (dsapkota), it's on its way right now from the Netherlands, along with a 100 Apo-Macro and 1.4x Apo
Hope it will hold up well with the 300/2.8L IS (great lens indeed).
Marco,
Selling the Canon 300 2.8L IS for the manual focus, non IS, one stop slower Leica 280 f/4.. you have truly slid to the bottom of the slippery slope. Nice apartment, very neat and tidy, I assume you have no teenage kids living with you
chuckpjones wrote:
Victor, not to change the subject, but isn't that painting on the wall in that shot done by Roger Williams?
I will find out. It is my brother-in-law's, he lived in Dallas, Stavanger and denHaag and collected art in all before he retired as an exec at Mobile. . he may have picked it up in the largest of those countries, Texas!
Does look like a 'mission' painting, but isnt Williams in AZ?
.. and that 12 mm makes my old good JVC smaller than it really is!.. well.. not by much... 