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Here is the 6 bit code on my loaner:

 

 

Just a curios...do someone know which is the 6 bit code for this lens ?

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I took my M9 which does need a new sensor, but I haven't got round to shipping it back yet… and my summicron 28 to Mayfair and tried the new 28 Summaron. It's a lovely tiny thing, don't like the lock on the focus tab. Took two shots with each lens at f5.6 and….

 

Well I should have taken more. A quick look says the summaron is more resolving in the centre and I didn't notice much performance fall off at the edges, it has a colour density that seems to add weight to the look of the image and they do look different, small differences in some ways, but I was impressed. I only did  a quick couple of shots and not a carefully managed comparison but nice..

 

Okay Leica do your thing with the 35 summilux F1.4 and make it .7m focus, rebuild and re engineer and I can covet yet another 35 I don't need  ;)

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All lenses sing on a Monochrom.

Thanks, sorry for my English, I mentioned if the characteristics of the lens suits a Monochrome as well, or if it is more a Lens for colorwork.

 

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That is somewhat more redesign than I expected.

Indeed,if both the schemas are trustable, almost all the curvatures are different from the old to the new... different glasses by sure... but maybe they aren't 100% precise..., for instance, the drawing at right (new lens) shows some glass' thicknesses that look different from the section view...

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It's nothing to do with lens design as such, more the coatings and I expect this new lens will be multi coated like all other current Leica lenses.

To make it even simpeler, is it more a color lens than a Monochrome lens

 

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To make it even simpeler, is it more a color lens than a Monochrome lens

To be honest I'm not sure what you mean. I would imagine that this lens will work brilliantly on your Monochrom. I wish I had a Monochrom, but I "only" have an M9... onto which I am going to fix this lens (I ordered last week) and make monochrome photographs with it, about 90% of my output.

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To be honest I'm not sure what you mean. I would imagine that this lens will work brilliantly on your Monochrom. I wish I had a Monochrom, but I "only" have an M9... onto which I am going to fix this lens (I ordered last week) and make monochrome photographs with it, about 90% of my output.

Thanks for your reply. I was worried that you need color to have the full "retro" impact of the lens

 

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Thanks for your reply. I was worried that you need color to have the full "retro" impact of the lens

 

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Well I can't really see how I've answered your question. I don't understand what you are asking. All I wrote was that I have ordered one and I plan to use it as I use all my lenses... on the M9 and converting to monochrome.

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Well I can't really see how I've satisfied your question. I don't really understand what you mean. All I wrote was that I have ordered one and I plan to use it as I use all my lenses... on the M9 and converting to monochrome.

Let's forget, thanks anyhow

 

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To make it even simpeler, is it more a color lens than a Monochrome lens

 

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It is rather the other way around, there are lenses that are better on the monochrom as chromatic aberrations will have less impact. It is hard to imagine a lens that is more suitable for colour than for black-and-white.

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Well, new, it has been around since 1861...

 

 

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