asiafish
All-Pro
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA
- Name
- Andrew
So I bought this lens from Brian about a-year-ago and haven't used it much. Not sure why, perhaps because of the all of the marks on the rear element (he sold it as something to the effect of "not pretty", though in reality it doesn't look too bad. My guess is that the marks won't do anything other than slightly reduce contrast at wide apertures, and I really don't bother with Sonnars stopped down as I prefer the Summicron from f/5.6 and smaller.
I usually shoot with my modern Summicron (if 1979 design can be called modern) or my more exotic f/1.5 Sonnars, but today for whatever reason I mounted the f/2 to my Monochrom and left for work about an hour early and took a bit of a detour.
In all, I think I underestimated this little lens. Images look quite sharp to me, with very pleasing rendering and bokeh that are distinct and different from anything else in my arsenal. I think this one will be seeing more use from now on.
All images captured with the Leica M Monochrom at ISO 320. Most shot wide-open at f/2, with orange filter and mild post processing in LR5 (mostly pulls on the black slider and boosts to clarity.
L1000142.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000144.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000145.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000146.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000149.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000152.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000163.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000164.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000165.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
L1000154.jpg by Lawman1967, on Flickr
I usually shoot with my modern Summicron (if 1979 design can be called modern) or my more exotic f/1.5 Sonnars, but today for whatever reason I mounted the f/2 to my Monochrom and left for work about an hour early and took a bit of a detour.
In all, I think I underestimated this little lens. Images look quite sharp to me, with very pleasing rendering and bokeh that are distinct and different from anything else in my arsenal. I think this one will be seeing more use from now on.
All images captured with the Leica M Monochrom at ISO 320. Most shot wide-open at f/2, with orange filter and mild post processing in LR5 (mostly pulls on the black slider and boosts to clarity.
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