Hi,
I started to get interested in this lens after I saw several people here and at other sites mentioning its usefulness for portraits and landscape photography. I bought such a lens last week on ebay for $290 shipped.
Here are my first results with the lens. I took maybe 15 shots out of which the first five images were soft and unsharp. I don't want ultra sharp portraits, but reasonably sharp eyes ... etc.
Some people here cautioned to check the alignment and I feel that my lens is OK here. It looks very clean, and it has the front and rear covers by Leica.
This is my oldest daughter, Dana. She was maybe bored and/or tired, and I am glad she allowed me to take some photos of her.
I usually set the M( to ISO 160, but with this heavy lens and with the open shade, I used ISO 640.
How many like-new-looking Leica lenses with max aperture 2.8 can you buy (shipped) for below $300!
I started to get interested in this lens after I saw several people here and at other sites mentioning its usefulness for portraits and landscape photography. I bought such a lens last week on ebay for $290 shipped.
Here are my first results with the lens. I took maybe 15 shots out of which the first five images were soft and unsharp. I don't want ultra sharp portraits, but reasonably sharp eyes ... etc.
Some people here cautioned to check the alignment and I feel that my lens is OK here. It looks very clean, and it has the front and rear covers by Leica.
This is my oldest daughter, Dana. She was maybe bored and/or tired, and I am glad she allowed me to take some photos of her.
I usually set the M( to ISO 160, but with this heavy lens and with the open shade, I used ISO 640.
How many like-new-looking Leica lenses with max aperture 2.8 can you buy (shipped) for below $300!
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