Took me a while to read through all y’alls comments regarding so much Leica
But I was sold on this lens on pg. 6 of this thread!
Always wanted Leica-esque IQ and this is good enough for me and my budget.
Received the Simera 50 today from the FM board, Simera 28 and 35 coming on Monday
Heres the first outing: Halloween event at the House of Trikes and Bikes in Fort Myers.
All pics are unedited RAWs (except the simple B/W conversions) compressed to Jpeg
Mounted to Sony A7r3 with the Voigtlander Adapter (non-helicoid)
First impression: very impressed!
-Strange spacing on aperature ring has me composing wide open and then stopping down as needed, without ever looking at the aperature value. Makes shooting “nostalgic” without EXIF - I probably wont ever know what f-stop im firing at!
-Solid build quality: incredible diaphragm with its 14 rounded blades! Aperature ring is by far not as clicky as im used to from my Cosina optics.
-The depth of field dots are pretty useless IMO - the range is just too shallow
Focusing manually is very easy: Plane of focus is much wider than expected, unless shooting up close to MFD
-Amazing chromatic aberration control.
-Bokeh is perfect !!
-LOVE THE Black/White performance very much - competes with my Color Skopars from Cosina.
-was expecting to have to correct the White Balance in post but no need!
Probably dont need a more telephoto portrait prime along with this 50, so just listed my 75 Nokton on the board fyi
