Leica 35mm lens battle with M9 in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong Leica Fans Club Gathering, have tested 23 quantities of 35mm lens (including Leica, Zeiss, Voigtlander, P.Angenieus) all with M9. Pls free to download it and compare the differences.

 

http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/115443291255815230208

[chris_tribble]

Interesting - but I note on the images for the Leica Summicron v4 (the one I own) that lens detection was off... Why did you do this? Or were you using the manual setting for an uncoded lens? Grateful if you could clarify...

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[michael_b_elmer]

Thank you very much for sharing with us.

 

However, there seems to be some confusion about the naming of the lenses.What you call(pre-asph) Summicron ver. 3 and (asph) ver. 4, are called Summicron IV and Summicron asph by Erwin Puts (in Leica Compendium, Hove Books, and Leica Pocket Book, 7th edition, Hove Collectors Books).

 

Your comparisons seem very interesting, and perhaps each of us must draw our own conclusions with regard to which lenses we like best. Personally, I prefer the bokeh on the 2.0 pictures from the Summicron Asph (black paint) and the Summilux asph, although the color rendition of the pre-asph Summicron ver 4 (Puts' terminology - this lens is often referred to as 'Bokeh King') seems more neutral (especially studying the grey parts of the X1). Could there be any reason for the difference in regard to color rendition - different camera etc.?

[topgun]

Interesting - but I note on the images for the Leica Summicron v4 (the one I own) that lens detection was off... Why did you do this? Or were you using the manual setting for an uncoded lens? Grateful if you could clarify...

 

We decide to turn off the lens detection b/c not every lens was in the database, fair for other brand lens and old lens that is on the database.

[topgun]

Thank you very much for sharing with us.

 

However, there seems to be some confusion about the naming of the lenses.What you call(pre-asph) Summicron ver. 3 and (asph) ver. 4, are called Summicron IV and Summicron asph by Erwin Puts (in Leica Compendium, Hove Books, and Leica Pocket Book, 7th edition, Hove Collectors Books).

 

Your comparisons seem very interesting, and perhaps each of us must draw our own conclusions with regard to which lenses we like best. Personally, I prefer the bokeh on the 2.0 pictures from the Summicron Asph (black paint) and the Summilux asph, although the color rendition of the pre-asph Summicron ver 4 (Puts' terminology - this lens is often referred to as 'Bokeh King') seems more neutral (especially studying the grey parts of the X1). Could there be any reason for the difference in regard to color rendition - different camera etc.?

 

Thanks for watching our test, our naming may not be "international" but we normally can recognize those name in our Hong Kong Market. The Leica Summicron now have 4 generation, the first one is 8 elements then is 6 elements, after that is 7 elements and last is ASPH. Hope this can clarity with you, Tks!

[lct]

Great job. The 35/2 IV is the "king of bokeh" Summicron. Not an asph lens.

[adan]

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To clarify -

 

35 Summicrons for rangefinder:

v.1 (1958) 8-element

v.2 (1969) 6-element (semaphore tab on aperture ring)

v.3 (1971) redesigned 6 element with different glass, air-lens added between elements 2-3* (no tab on aperture ring)

v.4 (1979) 7-element, King of Bokeh, etc.

v.5 (1997) ASPH 7-element

 

*see Puts, Leica Lens Compendium, p.154; Laney, Leica Collector's Guide, p.147

Edited June 13, 2010 by adan

[schnapshot]

Thank very much! Very intresting!

 

Hopefully you will get the chance to test the new summilux 35 in the near future