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  1. I found a used Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2, type 4 (with the focus tab). It was in so-so shape, mechanically ok but with the aperture ring a bit loose and with a few small friction scratches on the rear element. It was also dusty inside, showing maybe traces of fungus. I took my chance and had it CLA'd and it turned out to be pretty good. Finally it wasn't fungus, just weird dust. The rear element scratches don't seem to affect the pictures. I am using it on my A7II with my Voigtlander close focus M adapter. I don't really like the focus tab handling, it feels awkward, maybe it's a question of getting used to. There is some vignetting wide open, easily correctable in post. No color shift in the corners. Here's a picture I took today, I think the 3d pop is rather stunning, and it is razor sharp, wide open. mile-end-anarchy by Colin Surprenant, on Flickr I'll post more picts shortly. Colin
  2. This tiny lens - and I mean really tiny: I happened to loose it more than once inside the old big DSLR bag! - turned out to be one of my favorite. It is pretty impressively sharp - especially considering the focal length - and has beautiful tonalities. This is the first version, so you cannot mount filters on it. With the possible exclusion of seascapes (if you want to use something like a ND1000, to be clear) I don't find this to be a big deal; with such a vast angle of view a polarizer would be out of the question; I don't use other filters anyway. And if you need a split-ND to recover the light in the sky you can always just shot two frames and blend the exposure (way better that a split ND for my taste, but YMMV). My only gripe is that in some occasion - my guess at some specific focusing distance - it looks like it exhibits some kind of weird "blob" of unsharpness mid-frame. I said "it looks like" because I've not yet be able to replicate the behavior on purpose, and I have a doubt that it may have been some kind of adapter-related problem. Now I bought a new ring that looks of much better quality, so time will tell. Please note that all the images in color have been processed with the Flat Field Lightroom plugin to eliminate the notorious magenta shading at the borders. Narrow path, "Fossiata" forest, Italy Dark woods, "Fossiata" forest, Italy Cave at "Lampetia" cape, Cetraro, Italy Gorge at the "Fossiata" forest, Italy Creek and crumbled old bridge, "Fossiata" forest, Italy Window and night clouds
  3. At f/4 this lens is sharp, but the Jupiter-9 85mm it is sharper still already when opened at two more stops (at f/2). That being said, I find the Jupiter better for b/w work (smoother tonalities), while I like the 90 M-Rokkor much more for its colors. It is extremely compact, and together with the 28/2.8 and the 40/2 M-Rokkor it takes the same space of a tube of chocolates Understory, Sila mountains, Italy (vignetting added in post) Beach house walls, Cetraro, Italy "Tasso" forest ("Beaver" forest) under the snow Winter sea at Lampetia cape, Cetraro, Italy
  4. This lens has been dubbed, I don't remember by what famous photographer, the "water lens" for the way it treats the out-of-focus areas. It is quite sharp straight on from f/2 (but there are sharper lenses out here at that aperture) and becomes really really sharp stopping down. At least on my sample there is a super-correction of the borders at f/4: this means that the center is less sharp than at f/2, but the borders are sharper than at f/8 and almost as sharp at f/11. This lens is the twin of the Leica Summicron-C 40/2; what changes is the exterior of the lens, that in the Leica version sports a 39mm not-standard threading filter ring, while the Minolta uses 40.5mm filters. Also, rumors have that the Minolta version is multi-coated, while the Leica version is not. I don't know if that's true, but like you can see I've had no trouble even shooting straight into the light. "Tasso" forest ("Beaver" forest), Italy "Fossiata" forest, Italy
  5. One of my all time favorite lenses. From tests I've seen online sharper than the 2nd version Leica Elmarit M. It's sharp, but it will not be the sharpness per-se that will win you over. There is something, at least to my eyes, in the way this lens treats the tonal values of an image and the out of focus areas (no, I'm not talking about bokeh, more about the areas that are not "exactly" in focus) that I find extremely captivating. I have serious trouble leaving this one out of my bag. Luckily it is so small that I can tuck it in every small remaining space! Many of them suffers from what, in large format circles in reference to another brand, is called "Schneideritis". Basically the glass will looks full of tiny bubbles (even though these should not be bubbles in the glass, but according to many just spot of antireflective paint coming off the "walls" of the lens). This is my second one and it is clean; my first one, on the other hand, was affected pretty heavily by Schneideritis. Even so, the only thing I noticed with it was a certain propensity to flare more easily, but it was sharp as ever, in fact in my opinion probably ever so slightly sharper than the clean sample I have now. Acquappesa marina in the winter, Italy Storm clouds out of my kitchen window
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