Minolta for Leica M-Rokkor 40mm f/2

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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.

 

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