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 p.282 #18 · Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread | |
KL, those clouds are fantastic!
Luka, so are your stormy clouds. The waves in the stone work nicely repeats the rolling of the clouds. Very cool scene! Congrats on the M6, hopefully the coming days will be more rewarding with it. I too would like to see the M10 pared down to a similar size/weight. More importantly though, I'd like a much quieter shutter and much quieter motorized advance. Thanks for taking the time to do the lens comparison. I think this should be done more often, when possible, to help dispel the notion that it's Leica or nothing. Many of the Zeiss (and CV) lenses are very good and on optically equal footing. I think it's easy to forget that sometimes.
Nice moody set Ryan! I like the bikes.
Very nice B&Ws joakim!
Joe- very nice B&W from you too.
Malkovic - an interesting parallel to those two scenes, which at least for me, are quite complementary. Besides, anything with trains is cool.
Kyle: My only experience is with the Zeiss ZM21. It's a good lens and I think according to the MTF charts compares favourably with the Leica 21. But the ZM18 likely edges it a bit towards the corners. My experience with the 21 is that wide open the central area is very sharp, but due to fairly strong field curvature, if photographing a flat subject, the corners will not be sharp until around f/5.6. The field curvature is such that the focus towards the corners drifts behind the central focus point, making anything in the corners closer than the subject considerably more out of focus. It's the opposite to the field curvature with which I was familiar with the Canon 16-35 and has taken me a while to get used to. It has a bit of mustache distortion, but I have rarely found it to be an issue. I find the barrel distortion of the 50 Planar to be more noticeable and annoying (though easy to fix). Again, not sure how the Leica compares, but the ZM21 has zero CA in normal situations. Sometimes with very bright backlighting objects such as tree branches in the corners will exhibit some mild purple fringing, but it's not common.
The Zeiss will flare if the sun is shining on the front element but is not in the actual image. Unfortunately, because you're not looking through the lens while composing, it's difficult to predict when flare will a problem. And it's difficult to observe at times on the M9's display, because the flare is not usually extremely strong, or a long string of colorful blobs
I'm not sure which camera you'll be using it on, but if it's the M9, I've coded it as the Leica 21 non-ASPH and it seems to work pretty well, but still needs mild correction in Cornerfix. That said, if you're renting the lens and don't want to hand code it, and can't be bothered to set the code manually in the camera (the danger is forgetting to switch it back when using other lenses), I've found that if you just leave it uncoded it will 'clean up' equally well with Cornerfix. In fact, it might be better to leave it uncoded and use CF, but I also like to have the lens info embedded in the EXIF.
I like 21mm. I feel it's not too wide, but still really wide when needed.
Some more from the waterfront...
M9 & ZM35C for the first two, ZM50P for the last two.
Edited on May 25, 2011 at 12:41 AM · View previous versions
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Only about 4 of my shots were ruined. It's a frustrating experience but in the long run, I am enjoying using film a lot.
Thanks for the comparisons with the 25 Biogon and 28 Cron. I am now finding myself in looking for a select few lenses that work, and just keeping with them. I still have the ZM 25/2.8 and 50/2 Plannar for backup and they are excellent lenses in every respect. With the latest firmware about to be released for the M9, this still will not resolve the red edge issue for the ZM 25/2.8, other than LCC in C1 or corner fix.
I am really looking forward to seeing the comparison shots!!!
