telyt wrote:
Filter size and hood will tell you which model it is. Series VI (shares 12564 hood with first 50 'cron-R) is the first model, Series VII (has pins for locking hood) is 2nd model (David Llado's photo), E55 (built-in sliding hood) is third model (G-W-N's photo).
I just got a 90mm Elmarit R for my Canon 5D II and loving it. I don't know if I can can go back to using the L zooms. I'll have to look into adding a 35mm Elmarit to the kit. There are some very good deals available on the used market. Here are some portrait shots wide open.
brainiac wrote:
Beautiful shots Mike - I love the compositions, with foreground leading the eye into the background, and the colours are delicious. There is a fly in the ointment for me though, which is this: for some reason the pictures seem to entirely lack either microcontrast, or 3D effect, or some quality which makes one feel one is actually there.
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I was wondering when you'd jump in, Richard.
I have noticed this 3-D effect on Zeiss glass, but even on Canon's 24-70L, depending on the lighting.
I think the post-downsizing sharpening has some effect, but it often seems to boil down to Leica
giving the best color and geometry performance and bokeh, and Zeiss giving the 3-D.
Perhaps the point of focus has much to do with it too. If the subject to background separation is
greater [subject close, and focus on it, rather than infinity or hyperfocal] if should be easier to achieve.
It was taken in June 19, 2021 using Panasonic S1R with Elmarit-R 35mm F2.8 V3.
After selling both Elmarit-R 28mm V2 E55 and 35mm V3 E55, I newly purchased like new
35mm F2.8 from China. Using that, these image are taken. I do not any difference in sharpness,
especially in the center. Corner sharpness is slightly different story in Sony and Panasonic system.
Frankly I am favor 35mm over 28mm between two Leica R lenses.
Leica shows absolute superiority in sharpness and color.
