Ryan, nice contrast BW shots. god use of lighting.
Edward, nice street set, but your cup shot is wonderful, rendering and color is beautiful. Look forward to see your sonnar shots. one thing curious, you said it is optimized at f1.5, how is the focus accuracy, I seems remember Zeiss lens is designed for IKON with short flange distance, so always slightly back focused with Leica, do you have this problem?
Charles, Nice portraits, I admire your focus skill.
Some more from 50lux. I start forget its price pain and love its rendering more and more. This is the experiment in my mind, mid-distance bokeh, with its DOF transition, it can create MF look effortlessly more than any other lens on hand.
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Edward, nice street set, but your cup shot is wonderful, rendering and color is beautiful. Look forward to see your sonnar shots. one thing curious, you said it is optimized at f1.5, how is the focus accuracy, I seems remember Zeiss lens is designed for IKON with short flange distance, so always slightly back focused with Leica, do you have this problem?
Thank you very much for the nice comments, Zhangyue. Greatly appreciated. Very nice set with the Lux, lovely rendering!
As for the Sonnar, according to my MFD ruler test, focus is most accurate at f/1.8. It is very slightly front focusing at f/1.5 but within user error, but at f/2.8 the focus shifts backwards by 2-3 cm.
As far as I understand, Zeiss currently calibrates the ZM lenses for the Leica digital bodies. A couple of months ago, they discontinued the Zeiss Ikon, so it doesn't make sense to calibrate the lenses for film. It seems that latest batches of the Sonnar are calibrated for best focus at f/1.5 due to the market requests. I personally find it makes sense to calibrate it for f/2.8 for general use, unless all what one wants to do is shoot it wide open.
Ok, here's my obligatory infinity test of the C-Sonnar. Unfortunately, at the infinity hard stop, which is accurately indicated by the RF, this lens focuses beyond infinity. I need to pull back by 1-2 mm, which I did in this shot. This wouldn't be a problem with the M 240, but with the M9, I will need to make a few tests to know how much exactly I should pull. The test shot is at f/5.6 handheld. I believe the Planar to be on a much higher level of sharpness and contrast, but the C-Sonnar has a more pleasing rendering.
Thank you Hilmar, Charles, Andrew, Edward, Joe, Michael
Andrew, very nice portraits with the 75 Lux
Charles, nice photos with the 75 Lux and the 2 b&w of the woman are great.
Allen, I like that self-portrait
Edward, nice set with the 35 Biogon and the coffe & bagel shot is great. I'm looking forward to see more with the C-Sonnar.
Michael, I like #3 and #4 in your 50 Lux set. It's a great lens isn't it.
Charles, lovely backlighting on those Noct shots!
Edward, love the strong contrast
zhangyue Very nice series. I like the lines and textures in 3, 4, and 5.
My first time entering in the monthly contest with the first one:
Thanks for comments, Edward. Ryan, Joakim.
Thanks for feedback about Zeiss sonnar as well. I think either way has its own merit. (with Sonnar, you might want use it 1.5 more than f2.8, thought f2.8 at MFD, it gives nice rendering as well. ) Make owner happy either way.
Ryan, I like #1 very much, geometry and line works. Good luck with your competition The last one nice too.
Joakim, #2 is great, I don't realize 18 is way wider than 21. I need either this one or 15 vc.
Edward, The first one rendering is beautiful. Looks sharp as well.
Edward love the depth n #2 last set
joanlvh I really like the light pattern on the wall
Rock'n that 18 joakim
zhangyue love #3
Another nice set Ryan
Great stuff everyone.....
Here are a few from a very short visit to Switzerland last week. Challenging with the M8 and low light but things still worked out ok. I certainly could have used a tripod but didn't have one with me. All with CV15.
Michael, Joakim and Ryan, thank you very much
Michael, wonderful paint like rendering with the 50 Lux
Edward, the ZM 50 Sonnar, did frustrate me with trying to get the focus spot on. I had tried 3 copies, and this is when I lashed and picked a scarce second hand 50 Lux Asph. The Sonnar has beautiful rendering so long as the focusing is tamed!
Ryan, excellent graphic shots! Love the effect of the red filter Great use of the B&W filters!
Edward, very nice portrait captures!
Michael, congrats on the M3 and 50 Cron rigid
Joakim, just love that first shot!!!
Gary, wonderful set of shots!!! Love the depth of colors, and your ability to hand hold in low light
Shot from yesterday! M9P 50 Nocti f/1.0. At f/1.4 and f/8 respectively.
The last one nice too. 
