Bill W Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share #21 Â Posted January 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks to everyone for the discussions. I am leaning toward the asph version. Since I cannot keep several versions of the same lens, I will probably sell the non-asph. My photography is mostly outdoor landscapes which would mean a lot of stopped down near to far focus etc but I also like to shoot wide open and the asph version seems to have a slight edge there in my opinion. Thanks again to everyone, very useful discussions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 Hi Bill W, Take a look here 50mm f1.4 asph or non. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
mitchell Posted January 8, 2007 Share #22 Â Posted January 8, 2007 LCT, Â That's a beautiful hunk of metal and glass! Â I want it even though I have no use for it. !:^) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted January 8, 2007 Share #23 Â Posted January 8, 2007 Carsten: Quoting from the M8 instruction manual - Â "When using a lens without 6-bit coding, the recognition function of the camera must always be turned off, to prevent malfunctions." Â Page 86, English language section. Â Hi Andy, Â I know that it says that but I've left the lens detection on many times with uncoded lenses and I haven't seen any ill effects yet. Â Cheers, Â Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelikan1931 Posted January 9, 2007 Share #24 Â Posted January 9, 2007 obviously people can have different view of what is a smooth out of focus/bokeh. here are three shots, from 1) rigid summicron, 2) pre-asph summilux, 3) summilux asph, look at the upper right hand corner. I think I prefer the summilux asph better and the rigid least. of course in other application, the rigid might comes first. Â Â Â Â Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill W Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share #25 Â Posted January 9, 2007 I went ahead and ordered the 50 f1.4 asph from Tony Rose. I will sell the non asph 50 but might keep it long enough to do some of my own test. Of course I still need my M8 body Oh well!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrid Posted January 9, 2007 Share #26 Â Posted January 9, 2007 This is the Summicron 'dual range' (DR) or 'close focusing'. Â Â Ah, yes. The Summicron DR. Perhaps the greatest 50 Leica ever made. ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted January 9, 2007 Share #27 Â Posted January 9, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) obviously people can have different view of what is a smooth out of focus/bokeh...look at the upper right hand corner... Difficult to compare pictures with different fields of view and focus points IMHO. Would be fine with a tripod and the same light, FoV, aperture and focus point like in my samples above. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 9, 2007 Share #28 Â Posted January 9, 2007 That's a really lovely portrait, LCT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted January 9, 2007 Share #29 Â Posted January 9, 2007 Thank you Jeff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug_m Posted January 10, 2007 Share #30 Â Posted January 10, 2007 I've also left the lens detection on enabled when using an uncoded lens and have not had any problems by leaving the lens detection on and switching between a coded 28 mm and uncoded 50 mm. I still have the original 1.06 firmware. I was not planning on getting my 50mm or 75mm lenses coded. Is the 1.09 or 1.10 firmware going to have a negative impact ? Sean, can you find out if this is a real issue or not? Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted January 10, 2007 Share #31 Â Posted January 10, 2007 I've also left the lens detection on enabled when using an uncoded lens and have not had any problems by leaving the lens detection on and switching between a coded 28 mm and uncoded 50 mm. I still have the original 1.06 firmware. I was not planning on getting my 50mm or 75mm lenses coded. Is the 1.09 or 1.10 firmware going to have a negative impact ? Sean, can you find out if this is a real issue or not? Thanks. Â I can only see it being a problem if an uncoded lens triggers the lens detection accidentally. So far, I've never seen that happen. If there are other consequences, I haven't experienced them. Â Cheers, Â Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnguyen Posted January 10, 2007 Share #32 Â Posted January 10, 2007 I'm not sure now.... I have both current 50mm f2 and f1.4 non-ASPH and after seeing your test pics I'm not sure if it's worth upgrading mine to 1.4 ASPH. I personally like two disticnt looks from the Cron and the Lux that I have. thanks for the test guys Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick123 Posted January 10, 2007 Share #33 Â Posted January 10, 2007 Hi everyone, Â While I still debate obtaining the M8, I continue to enjoy my D-Lux 2. At the risk of sounding antagonistic, I just thought I would offer my humble opinion that as the owner of a 1993 M6 with Summilux-M 50mm f1.4 (PreASPH), I think that if anything, the pre-ASPH shot looks better in this test (with its limitations). Â Rick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM-25 Posted January 10, 2007 Share #34 Â Posted January 10, 2007 I prefer the critically sharp image of the aspheric version. The bokeh is not bad either, maybe not as nice as the pre-asph samples, but not too far off either. Â I have a shot from the 50 asph wide open in a night club on Kodachrome 200. The image includes the whole band and the sound guy, quite a wide image. Off to the left, I can see the little lines that divide the increments on the graphic equalizer. That was shocking to me. Â I have two Leica lenses, the only ones I will ever need, the 50 and the 28/2 aspherics. Sharpenss is 99% of the reason I even got into Leica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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