Unscientific test of 75mm Summarit vs. Summicron on M8

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I happen to be interested in seeing hand-held, real world results.

Hand-held real-world results are interesting when they're photographs—not when they're flawed test shots.

 

 

I use my Leica for street, fashion, spontaneous art, things that would be defeated by the rigidity of a tripod. For me the Leica is about intuition and responsiveness.

Good for you. But what does this have to do with lens testing?

 

 

What's the point in evaluating a lens in ways that I rarely would use it, beyond the curiosity of an academic exercise?

What's the point in evaluating a lens in a way that doesn't yield the information you are looking for?

 

When looking at photographs then you'd say, hey here I nailed focus! or, a pity focus is slightly off there ... but you wouldn't try to derive conclusions about the lenses' relative qualities from that, would you? If you want to find out if one lens is better or worse than another then you simply cannot use slightly mis-focused test shots of a white piece of paper with sparse printing on it at close range!

 

Or is your street and fashion and spontaneous art photography always about intuively shooting white pieces of paper at an angle?

 

 

Thread is from two years ago ...

So?

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[Guest mc_k]

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So?

 

I don't disagree with your point, but it was made in post 2.

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01af,

 

Do you own a 75 Summicron?