Summarits on Analog M

[Imperial]

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Greetings to All

 

any experiance with Summarit lenses (35mm, 75mm) on M6 or M7? Does the same performance as on the M8?

 

Best regards

 

Peter

[earleygallery]

I am officially starting the 'Analog NO! Film YES!' campaign. Hate the term analog which is creeping into use more and more. We have digital cameras and film cameras. Why use 'analog' ?

 

As for your question, Leica only designs 'full frame' i.e. 35mm format lenses. Of course the M8 crop factor means that you aren't using the extremities of the field of view where generally performance will tend to fall off at wider apertures.

[SJP]

I would propose "chemical binary" versus "sustainable, green, digital".

 

Film grain is binary as we all (should) know.

 

EDIT sorry for the OT, the summarits work fine with film as far as I am aware. I would be surprised if they were not much better than the 35 summaron my M2, which is good enough by all normal standards. We are being spoiled by Leica, even their low end (or antique) lenses are impressive. Did you try searching Flickr tags for examples?

[underground]

i am officially starting the 'analog no! Film yes!' campaign. Hate the term analog which is creeping into use more and more. We have digital cameras and film cameras. Why use 'analog' ?

 

As for your question, leica only designs 'full frame' i.e. 35mm format lenses. Of course the m8 crop factor means that you aren't using the extremities of the field of view where generally performance will tend to fall off at wider apertures.

 

i agree 100%

[Gentleman Villain]

I am officially starting the 'Analog NO! Film YES!' campaign. Hate the term analog which is creeping into use more and more. We have digital cameras and film cameras. Why use 'analog' ?

 

My thoughts exactly...However...I'm a dinosaur so anybody that agrees with me is probably a dinosaur too. Analog is just becoming the acceptable term now

 

However, I definitely draw the line at saying "landscape" & "portrait" instead of horizontal & vertical...That s*&t drives me insane

[rob_x2004]

Analog is just becoming the acceptable term now

 

To whom? James for president!

[giordano]

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any experiance with Summarit lenses (35mm, 75mm) on M6 or M7? Does the same performance as on the M8?

 

From what the "Summarit family brochure" says and the MTF charts show, performance wide open in the corners of the 24x36 frame isn't as good as in the corners of the smaller M8 frame, but evens up by about f/5.6.

 

If so, then at wide apertures the Summarits won't perform quite as well on the film cameras as on the M8 - but except when photographing brick walls you'll hardly ever notice:)

[Photon42]

From what the "Summarit family brochure" says and the MTF charts show, performance wide open in the corners of the 24x36 frame isn't as good as in the corners of the smaller M8 frame, but evens up by about f/5.6.

 

If so, then at wide apertures the Summarits won't perform quite as well on the film cameras as on the M8 - but except when photographing brick walls you'll hardly ever notice:)

 

I'd say this holds true for quite a bit of other lenses, too. Unfortunately, I cannot remember having used the 75 a lot with film. On digital, it's really a nice lens. I'd wonder really, if this won't be the case with film as well.

 

Cheers

Ivo