A running tally of M11 complaints so far

[otto.f]

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5 hours ago, Overgaard said:

I love https://www.reidreviews.com for the depth perspective of it though. Always useful details he stumble over and goes deep and nerdy about. 

I find it a bit strange though that a reviewer testing mostly Leica lenses or Leica oriented lenses, shows so seldom full aperture shots. And he mostly reports the aperture with 'circa'. As if Leica hasn't always been oriented at IQ with full aperture, one its hallmarks.

[LeicaS2]

Love the camera and new battery system.

shouldn’t have bothered to buy a second battery.

only surprise in early shooting is if I am on auto speed and the camera transitions from mechanical shutter to electronic the lack of a click made me think I wasn’t shooting. Now I’m used to it.

[fotografr]

On 2/28/2022 at 10:07 AM, Ouroboros said:

Here we are perched on a knife edge of possible nuclear holocaust and people are whinging about the cost of a camera! 

 

I'd love to start a thread for complaints about that war mongering jackass Putin, but my understanding is that we are to avoid political statements here.

[Ouroboros]

11 minutes ago, fotografr said:

I'd love to start a thread for complaints about that war mongering jackass Putin, but my understanding is that we are to avoid political statements here.

Something a little more descriptive than complaints would be applicable. 

Ooops.....

[SrMi]

10 hours ago, fotografr said:

I'd love to start a thread for complaints about that war mongering jackass Putin, but my understanding is that we are to avoid political statements here.

There is always Barnack's Bar.

[fotografr]

15 hours ago, SrMi said:

There is always Barnack's Bar.

Thanks for the reminder. I just paid a visit.

[Overgaard]

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On 3/6/2022 at 4:24 AM, otto.f said:

I find it a bit strange though that a reviewer testing mostly Leica lenses or Leica oriented lenses, shows so seldom full aperture shots. And he mostly reports the aperture with 'circa'. As if Leica hasn't always been oriented at IQ with full aperture, one its hallmarks.

I think, if you surveyed the images of Leica photographers, you would find many stop down the lenses. Many still hear in their back head the "good ol advice" that a lens is performs best at f/5.6 (corner sharpness, whoever needs that).  I know that lens designer Peter Karbe would like for people to use them wide open, and that he mostly made them for that.

Also, it's easier to get sharp (in focus) images if you stop down as you have more depth of field.