glenerrolrd Posted May 3, 2007 Share #21 Posted May 3, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have been on a major 50 cron kick recently. I find it to be a great casual portrait lens to shoot my daughter with. Super easy to focus, easy to get tight cropping for little babies, and the look is just wonderful, especially wide open. I agree that this lens lacks the bokeh of the 90 APO (which I also love), but the 50 is still respectable and quite smooth in its transition from sharp to oof. Okay, the truth is I just wanted to show off pictures of my daughter Sophia. Enjoy. David David Those are really nice photos of Sophia! The 50mm Summicron is still the signiture Leica look. Next ..try the Noctilux! Roger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Peter Branch Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share #22 Posted May 3, 2007 ........... Anyone who already owns a 35 or a 28 will want 16 mm. Well, possibly 18 mm. The weakness of the current 50 mm Summicron is its sensitivity to flare....... I'm probably just as old - but hey.... I have actively lobbied Leica for years to come up with an 18mm – I still hope. An f/2.8 that covers the M8 format would be just fine and if it was filter compatible with very low distortion then I will buy – that’s a promise Leica! I loved the 24mm on my M6ttl. The propensity to flare, (all those flat surfaces?), is the very reason I did not buy the current 50mm f/2. The MTF is not top-draw any more either but on film that hardly mattered in real world photography. Now with the M8 MTF is assuming greater significance for all manner of technical reasons, so I’m not in the market for the current f/2 on both counts; flare and MTF. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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