TL> Hmmm. I'm tempted to get one of those, now. I must admit I have a
TL> strange liking for slightly odd equipment of this kind... Any other
TL> opinions on it (besides the usual
TL> "it's-Russian-so-it-must-be-crap")?
I tried one in shop (and seen few examples from others), and it's a
very interesting lens.
1) Boke is simply gorgeous
2) Wide open until about 2.8 it's very pleasantly soft
3) from that aperture it got sharp a lot
4) it has pre-set aperture which is a bit of hindrance when you don't
want to shoot it wide open - for example if you need f/4 or f/5.6 to
get the good sharpness of this lens, you have a dark viewfinder. It
would be great for a rangefinder camera where you would have a bright
finder no matter what aperture you chose (unfortunately, the
rangefinder versions, if they exist, would probably suffer from focus
inaccuracy due to different focusing cams than Leica).
5) At the price, it's a very interesting lens.
Good light!
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