Jerry_R Posted June 21, 2011 Share #1 Posted June 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Optyczne.pl: Google Translate Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jerry_R Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share #2 Posted June 21, 2011 Fotopolis.pl: Google Translate Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_R Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted June 21, 2011 Leica Announces Super-Elmar 21mm f/3.4 ASPH | La Vida Leica Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trond Posted June 21, 2011 Share #4 Posted June 21, 2011 Already on the Leica web site: Leica Camera AG - New Products Best regards Trond Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_R Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share #5 Posted June 21, 2011 Leica: Leica Camera AG - Photography - NEW: LEICA SUPER-ELMAR-M 1:3,4/21 mm ASPH. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted June 21, 2011 Share #6 Posted June 21, 2011 Leica Camera AG - Photography - NEW: LEICA SUPER-ELMAR-M 1:3,4/21 mm ASPH. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted June 21, 2011 Share #7 Posted June 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Leica announces Super-Elmar-M 21mm f/3.4 ASPH: Digital Photography Review Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted June 21, 2011 Share #8 Posted June 21, 2011 (edited) Yep. There's a post also on the M9 forum that I guess will get merged with this one. Funny that Leica says "the hood should be used at all times" - but all the pictures of the lens in the tech specs show it without the hood. $2,995 per B&H I had some doubts that this would show up, given that there is already the 18 f/3.8 (same price) and the WATE as slowish lenses in the neighborhood of "21mm" - but I'm happy to be proved wrong. Edited June 21, 2011 by adan Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgray Posted June 21, 2011 Share #9 Posted June 21, 2011 I was hoping that this lens would have less distortion. I'd think about replacing my Zeiss 21/4.5 with it. Oh well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted June 21, 2011 Share #10 Posted June 21, 2011 Vignettes more than the 21/2.8 asph at first glance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted June 21, 2011 Share #11 Posted June 21, 2011 Vignettes more than the 21/2.8 asph at first glance. Well, on the promo page Leica does say it is a "worthy successor" to the old f/3.4 Super-Angulon - which vignetted severely. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
menos I M6 Posted June 21, 2011 Share #12 Posted June 21, 2011 The "performance proof images" on the Leica site are strange - seems, Leica has been testing the lens with different lens selections in the M9, as the exif data state f1 and f2.8 as respective widest apertures. So don't take the performance proofs for granted as to show the actual red edge/ vignetting performance of the actual lens. Too bad, the price is steep. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted June 21, 2011 Share #13 Posted June 21, 2011 Just coding issues i guess. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted June 21, 2011 Share #14 Posted June 21, 2011 ... Too bad, the price is steep. Of course, anything branded "Leica" has a steep price. Though when you look at the last price for the 2.8/21mm asph - which was 3395,-€ and the new lens is 2250,-€ (for half a stop slower) I wouldn't call it overprized. Comparing the MTF-graphs of the Elmarit with the new lens shows the progress Leica optics made - for a considerably lower price. Distortion and vignetting don't show much difference. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted June 21, 2011 Share #15 Posted June 21, 2011 With 0.4% distortion the Skopar 21/4 seems to do better as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted June 21, 2011 Share #16 Posted June 21, 2011 Since I already have 3 lenses at this focal length - Summilux, Elmarit, Tri-Elmar, I will need some persuading to buy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_R Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share #17 Posted June 22, 2011 Samples, including RAWs, Fotopolis.pl: Google Translate Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted June 22, 2011 Share #18 Posted June 22, 2011 The graphs look good and the distortion is no worse than that of the 35mm Summilux ASPH v.2, and I can live with that. The old man from the Age of the 21mm Contax Biogon Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 22, 2011 Share #19 Posted June 22, 2011 They have done fine making it a 3,4 instead of a 3,8... the old Super Angulon is still a robust heritage of classic design; and 21 is also a historical focal... they could not go on with only the supercostly Summilux and WATE : so, good announcement, imho a lens that will endure for many years in the pricelist. Personally, having the 21 2,8 asph, I don't feel any need of it... but am curios to wait for comparisions... I also hoped that the rumors of time ago regarding a 14 3,8 would concretize in an announcement (wasn't something about in firmware or I'm wrong ...??)... but seems is not yet the moment for it... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted June 22, 2011 Share #20 Posted June 22, 2011 Funny that Leica says "the hood should be used at all times" - but all the pictures of the lens in the tech specs show it without the hood. The drawing shows no filter thread though, so assuming that you want to use a filter...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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