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I own the Leica M9 with many good and new Leica glass and got the NEX-5 to use it with the smaller Leica lenses like 28mm/2.8.
Here is my star of these
@cth55, interesting framing, how did you do it? philber wrote:
Yes, lovely shots, dierk! Do you get no colour shift with the 28?
yes, I do
here are test shots (!!) to show the color edges:
Leitz Elmarit-M 28mm f2.8 ASPH (very small and only 170 g light)
Dierk, denoir reports that there is NO colour shift on his new NEX C3, even with a Zeiss ZM 18mm, which gives massive colour shift on my NEX 5. So give up too soon...
I would like to join this thread but could not read all posts up to now
I own the Leica M9 with many good and new Leica glass and got the NEX-5 to use it with the smaller Leica lenses like 28mm/2.8.
Here is my star of these
The 50Lux is wonderful but the left and right borders, and the corners, don't reach decent levels until f/8 (so it's a good thing we often don't need the corners sharp). The FA31 is just a plain very good trustworthy working horse with excellent contrast, micro-contrast and resolution. Some LoCA but wth, it works for about everything.
now I think i know why they quietly rave about this lens along with the 50/2 over at the RFF secret sub-forums.
I also grabbed a 105/2.5 RF from the same seller, which is nice, but not quite so unique.
the 5cm is expensive in LTM, and needs a very special helicoid adapter for the cheaper nikon S mount (which I did not realise at first, naturally). Had to send to Venezuela.
Again, this is putting unreasonable strain on the poor lens and a very good reason why a real macro lens is preferable to using tubes. Still, tubes are a fun and cheap way of doing closeups.
