FrankA Posted May 24, 2008 Share #1 Posted May 24, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Which lenses and which version are best at giving the sought after leica glow? Can you show examples? I assume these would be the f/1.4 R lenses. Thanks for helping. Frank Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Angora Posted May 25, 2008 Share #2 Posted May 25, 2008 The 80 is usually quoted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted May 25, 2008 Share #3 Posted May 25, 2008 Some say it is all a myth and heaps of other glass produces a similar result but then again ............ ........... shove a couple of triple a batteries in the lens and you should have your answer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamey Posted May 25, 2008 Share #4 Posted May 25, 2008 Sorry Frank, cannot show you on a Computer screen unless you turn up the brightness or contrust. If you want to see that Leica Magic, then there is only one medium that will give it to you. You need to shoot slides or tranparancies and projected through a top quality slide projecter, preferable a Pradovit and any of the colorplan lenses. A top quality loupe will also help. Remember Transparancies (slides) are the ultimate in imagery, anything alse such as Digital or Negatives are simply a convenient substitute. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Roberts Posted May 25, 2008 Share #5 Posted May 25, 2008 The 80 is usually quoted. I wouldn't disagree... the 80 R lux shot between 1.4 and 2.0 has a noctilux-ish rejection of flare, and consequently handles small amounts of high contrast light very well indeed (much better than any other 80-ish lens I've used or seen). But I'm never quite sure what people mean by the "Leica glow", except for the uncommonly interesting contrast characteristics of many of the R and M lenses (and those change as you stop down). Any real "glow" in a shot is also dependent on the light, of course...but given the light, these lenses do very well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimmy pro Posted May 26, 2008 Share #6 Posted May 26, 2008 Which lenses and which version are best at giving the sought after leica glow? Any of them that were in the vicinity of Chernobyl when it blew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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