Received a lens I've been curious about - the Canon 35/2 LTM. Very small lens. Smaller than my ZM35/2.8. I'll write up a bit more about it later, but in the meantime, I like its stronger/busier OOF specular highlights. Reminds me somewhat of the Nikon 5cm/1.4's hard edged blur discs. But the blur discs change across the frame, from somewhat larger and softer in the center, to smaller and harder at the edges. Must be some connection to probable field curvature. By f/4 though the blur quality is much calmer, though of course subject background is much reduced.
Wide open:
Here are three, f/2 through f/4:
It's also quite sharp centrally. Probably best across the frame around f/8.
Here's one at f/5.6, simply because I was impressed it resolved the spokes on the bikes.
TriTran, nice set from the market.
Phil, excellent portrait with the 50 0.95! Special lens for a very special visitor
Alllen, another excellent street outing! #3&4 are my favorites. The gate/fence shot is also nice.
Ron, always impressed with your use of UWA lenses including the 21FL. Great set and I really like the B&W pp on these. Those gargoyle shots are also really nice with textured lighting! Finally, congrats on your Canon 35/2 ltm (and your other new lenses ). Can't wait to see more from this lens. I am having GAS attack again
Michael, another nice analog set! 35CronV1 and B&W is a potent combo!
Joakim, nice sun stars! Roses from your garden?
Edwin, excellent composition and colors with the chair and steps!
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Carl Zeiss Sonnar 50/2 (postwar coated)
Center resolution is quite good for such an old design dating back to the 1930s
Hilmar, Very nice set of photos. thanks for sharing. The place is so beautiful. I wish I can be there someday.
Ron, the canon 35f2's Bokeh is quite good, I feel it is better than 35cron v1
Joe, this thread is a alt thread now in another form, we no longer use Leica on M
Cool shot, Michael! It would be interesting to compare the Canon 35/2 against the Cron V1. The image quality from the Canon somewhat surprised me, though the build quality is definitely below that of Leica, Zeiss ZM, older Nikkor RF...
Joe, the Sonnar looks great!
Scott, I haven't seen much from the 35/1.7 and will be interested in what you create with it.
Hilmar - wow - great write-up and images in the full gallery on your site! I saw some of these on your Flickr and love the B&W of the giraffes. I completely agree about how with the 'wider' lenses you've shown a lot more of the environment, rather than the standard long telephoto 'portraits' that are so popular with many wildlife photographers. Might be worth stopping in at the Lumas gallery beside the Leica Store to inquire whether they might be interested? There's at least one other photographer from Munich I follow on Flickr who has done this...
While heading home from trying out the lenses last night, I noticed the neat look of the clouds against the sky (most evident in the last image below). It didn't last that long, so only managed to work it with this location... but for some reason, I really like this garage (and have photographed it and possibly posted it here in the past):
First two with the Canon 35/2. Maybe could have used the 28 Cron instead because I'm torn between showing more sidewalk/road or showing more sky. Maybe a blend of the two in Photoshop?
Michael, nice shot of the Beetle with the 35CronV1. Beautiful colors and I really like the rendering of your 35CronV1!
Ron, both Canon 35 and 50s look great! The garage looks more like a shed to me, curious what they have inside. On the 50Lux ASPH shot, it looks as if the cloud formation were shot at different times, cool catch!
Continuing on our ALT Leica M thread, OM Zuiko 50 3.5 Macro
Ron, the processed file looks very special. I love the color. Hearing build quality is not as good as Leica is a relief to me as I no longer consider explore these beautiful lens. For me, it is a big consideration for lens selection I know, I know, don't laugh at me. I choose Leica R over a bunch of Canikon also for this reason, at least, in additional to optics
Joe, Bokeh looks delicious.
I have mentioned many times about poor flare control of 35cron V1. (it is the achilles heel of v1)
Now let's see one from last Sunday.
'explosion'
Now, I wonder which 28/35 lens particular good at this situation based on your experience? any comments welcome.
sebboh wrote:
woah! you can see the actual aperture blades of the lens in the image. that's crazy!
looks like no oil on the blades though.
Yeh, My copy is mint condition
Thanks for comments, Allen. I wonder how 35lux ASPH Fle in this regard? I heard good thing about new 35 f2.5 Leica. It will be a good buy for around $1100.
However, with careful control, you can also get this from 35cron V1
The FLE and 35 2.5 summarit m flares the least. All of my other 35s flares - 35 lux asph. 35 cron asph and pre asph. Even my 60 year old w-nikkor 35 1.8 handles flare better than the 35crons. Others might want to chip in on the ZMs or CV35 1.2?
Michael, have you sent the lens back to Leica for checking? Sometimes the front element could be misaligned or it could be scratched to cause what you are seeing?
How's this for a 1950s Canon 35 1.8 ltm flare? This was the worse example I have on this lens, otherwise its mostly veiling or ghosting
rscheffler wrote:
Thanks guys. It was fun to meet up with Eric and some Toronto area photographers. I should note some of the images, like the fifth and last one, were cropped a fair amount.
Phil: I like the 21 Lux a lot, with certain caveats. Even with the 21/1.8 now available from Voigtlander, I still think it's a pretty unique lens if you're looking for both light gathering ability at this focal length and maximum subject/background separation. The Voigtlander is comparatively sharp wide open and the background blur difference is not considerable in the center of the frame. Where these lenses differ is in field curvature. Leica has apparently put a lot of effort into attempting to flatten the plane of focus as much as possible (as seems to be the case with all/most of their modern lenses, Luxes in particular). In reality it's somewhat wavy but the center and edges of the frame are about in the same plane. For example, this image from the series above:
). Can't wait to see more from this lens. I am having GAS attack again 
