Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] The big event
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:27:56 -0800
 
Well, I'm sick with pneumonia and I still had to go out and do some 
work today. On the way back I stopped at my photo dealer, and....

The 21 Summilux has arrived. He held the price even though the Canuck 
buck has sunk a fair ways since I ordered it, so I managed a 20% 
discount.

The lens looks great; everything seems as good as hoped for from my 
short time with one at Photokina. Nice feel to everything, with 
slightly heavy focussing that I'll try to limber up as soon as 
possible. The UV/IR filter had come in a couple of months ago, so I 
have that as well.

I'll be shooting on the M8's mostly, but also on the M6.

First indications are that using the aperture only influences dof and 
vignetting; other image parameters are for all practical purposes the 
same at any f-stop, and it performs essentially identically to the 
21/2.8 ASPH at common apertures.

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    *            Henning J. Wulff
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