Tim Ashley on M240 and 28 Cron

[Guest camera man]

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A poor workman blames his tools!

[pieterpronk]

Low contrast lens the 28/2? We won't agree on this i'm afraid. As for the M240, it works fine with both asph and pre-asph lenses IMO. My best word to describe it is transparent.

 

Well, low contrast might indeed be wrongly put. I do find its rendering to be less "asph" than most other "asph" lenses, like for example the 35mm cron asph and the 50mm summilux asph.

So I would say it's low contrast compared to other modern Leica lenses.

 

I use mine together with a 50mm Summilux asph on my MM, and I find the draw of the 28mm to be much more subtle and less modern. I would characterize it as a lens that is in between the older lenses and the more modern asph lenses.

[lct]

On this we can agree.

[don daniel]

Yes, and you can add that on the new M you can see this subtle, less modern drawing of the SC28, too.

[don daniel]

And to show this: Leica M with SC28 asph., click to be able to see full resolution and the very subtle transition from sharpness to bokeh:

Strandkorb 99 von Blende 1.4 auf Flickr

 

I'm pretty sure a Summilux 28 if one day there will be such a lens won't match the subtleness of the Summicron because it will be like the Summilux 35 FLE: brutally sharp and it will cut off the sharp part from the rest of the image. And it will be big and heavy.

[thrid]

Lenses don't take boring pictures; people take boring pictures.

[lct]

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Or people are bored by the boring pictures they (we) take.