Guest Olof Posted June 7, 2009 Share #1 Posted June 7, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) with flat i mean, the lens with would be the best one to take a picture from flat items Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 7, 2009 Posted June 7, 2009 Hi Guest Olof, Take a look here Is the 35mm Cron the flatest aktuall lens ?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
adan Posted June 7, 2009 Share #2 Posted June 7, 2009 You mean, as in copying flat things like paintings? I think the 50 'cron would edge out the 35 'cron for field flatness. There might be something even better (90 Macro?) but that I don't know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrice Posted June 7, 2009 Share #3 Posted June 7, 2009 the 35 Cron-R has quite a flat field and low distoriton if that's the lens we're referring to, but it's not as flat as the 50 Cron-R, 90 APO-Cron-R or 100 APO-Macro-Elmarit-R. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted June 7, 2009 Share #4 Posted June 7, 2009 Or the Macro-Elmarit-R 60/2.8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 7, 2009 Share #5 Posted June 7, 2009 with flat i mean, the lens with would be the best one to take a picture from flat items Speking of aktuall lenses I think you mean the ones that are on price list today: in this case, all of them have the basic performance graphs published, and to evaluate which are the best for taking pics of flat items there is a graph that is very significant and also easy to be interpreted : is the distortion/relative distortion graph, you can find the pdf files in the Leica site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christer Posted June 7, 2009 Share #6 Posted June 7, 2009 Speking of aktuall lenses I think you mean the ones that are on price list today: in this case, all of them have the basic performance graphs published, and to evaluate which are the best for taking pics of flat items there is a graph that is very significant and also easy to be interpreted : is the distortion/relative distortion graph, you can find the pdf files in the Leica site. I'm not sure that's what he means. Perhaps he should make clear to us what he means before we "help". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enboe Posted June 7, 2009 Share #7 Posted June 7, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) The macro lenses, including the 90mm for M as well as the 60mm mentioned for R, are probably the best corrected for photographing flat objects. They will exhibit corner-to-corner sharpness and minimal distortions. That being said, most Leica lenses made within the past 35+ years perform admirably in both sharpness and distortion control. The extra expense for a dedicated lens would need to be justified by a specific performance attribute and level. Enjoy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
microview Posted June 7, 2009 Share #8 Posted June 7, 2009 One of the things I used that lens for was photographing 300x300mm LP sleeves for magazine reproduction, from distance of just under 1m (sleeves Blu-tacked to brick wall). There were no instances of barreling with the Summicron 35. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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