ryee3 Posted November 3, 2012 Share #1 Posted November 3, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am planning on purchasing a 28mm R lens. Previous threads state version 2 is better than version 1. Anyone who has experience with both lenses think the difference is that significant and why? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Hi ryee3, Take a look here 28 mm R is version 2 that much better?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted November 3, 2012 Share #2 Posted November 3, 2012 I have owned both. I still own and use v2 The second version is subtly better than the v1, and the built-in hood is much more convenient. Buy a v2 if you can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted November 4, 2012 Share #3 Posted November 4, 2012 I have both 11204 and 11259 versions. The 11204 is very small and it is a sharp lens in the center at all apertures but it is soft in the angles at f/2.8. Vignettes a lot also on FF bodies, at least on my 5D1. I don't use it any more for this reason. The 11259 is bulkier but not that much and has a built-in hood as Andy said above. The 11259 vignettes significantly less and is sharper in the corners than the 11204. All in all the 11259 and the almost identical 11333 are very good lenses although not my favorites on the 5D1 (Zuiko 28/2). Leica Elmarit-R 28mm f/2.8 (S7) Lens Review http://tinyurl.com/bs9bh2v http://tinyurl.com/c3t5nfm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB007 Posted November 4, 2012 Share #4 Posted November 4, 2012 I do not own or used either. However, Elmarit 28/2.8 V2 is considered by some as the best 28mm ever made. Mr. Puts also wrote that it is better than the M version. I do have the M version which is excellent on the M9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted November 4, 2012 Share #5 Posted November 4, 2012 Did he write this really? If so, he did not refer to the current Elmarit M i guess as the latter is a better performer in all counts but vignetting IMHO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB007 Posted November 4, 2012 Share #6 Posted November 4, 2012 Yes, he stated. To Quote Mr. Puts: "....This is an outstanding lens that in some areas even surpasses the M-version, which lacks the mechanically complex floating-element construction" Erwin Puts. Leica-Chronicle (Kindle Locations 4383-4384). imX Photosite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted November 5, 2012 Share #7 Posted November 5, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) This is an excerpt of the 2005 version of Erwin Puts' Leica Lens Compendium (http://tinyurl.com/dxhka2f, page 137) where he does not refer to the Elmarit-M 28/2.8 asph which came out later on in 2006. I don't know if he kept this passage as is in the last version of his book but if so, i would say that the latter needs to be updated on this point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB007 Posted November 5, 2012 Share #8 Posted November 5, 2012 I'm not sure why he stated again in The Leica-Chronicle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted November 5, 2012 Share #9 Posted November 5, 2012 I don't know this chronicle sorry so i cannot say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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