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Leica Monochrom MM + Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6

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This image, taken today, has no great merit , but does demonstrate the lovely vignette you get with this wonderful little lens.

 

M9 / 5.6 Summaron-M

 

This shot is usually taken with a big stopper.

Unusual to see the sea not milky!!

 

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M6, 28mm Summaron, Portra 400

 

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I've owned this lens for more than a year now but, until yesterday, had never tried it on a digital Leica. At F5.6 the vignetting (presumably sensor induced rather than optical vignetting) is diabolical but it improves markedly by F11 which, I think, I used for this snap below.

 

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Swanage Piers

 

This image, taken today, has no great merit , but does demonstrate the lovely vignette you get with this wonderful little lens.

 

M9 / 5.6 Summaron-M

 

Does a programme like Lightroom not automatically correct the vignette? The lens is coded so that this could be done. Or did you unable the automatic correction?

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Does a programme like Lightroom not automatically correct the vignette? The lens is coded so that this could be done. Or did you unable the automatic correction?

 

Hi Alex.

That is the vignette with the lens adjustment 'on'. You probably could reduce in LR, but it is to me the whole point and part of the character of the lens. If you want a corrected 'modern' image may as well use 28mm Summicron or Elmar.

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Another digital example. Perhaps I shouldn't be, but I'm a little surprised that some of the character of the lens does seem to carry over between film and digital.

 

 

Thankfully they are not overdoing the correction of it's character in software. But that was one of it's selling points, that it retains the character of the original design.

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I like very much this Summaron 28. 

 

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Personally I think the vignette is too much on digital at F5.6 but the lens looks ok at F11-ish and retains much of its character.

 

I hadn't noticed the vignetting you're getting, Ian.

 

Here's a shot which I think was taken at f/5.6 on my Monochrom 1:

 

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I hadn't noticed the vignetting you're getting, Ian.

I am also using LightRoom exclusively, which probably corrects the vignetting.

 

 

I don't think it is a Lightroom difference because I use Adobe Camera Raw (via Bridge) and I think that uses the same processing "engine". Our different observations may just come done to the way we use the lens – I tend to photograph towards the light and I think (though I don't know why) this may exaggerate the vignetting effect. 

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