[Leica] Perar 28 looks good to me!

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Hi Richard,
I think the shots look pretty good.  I think we can all be a little too 
critical at times.  An interesting experiment to try would be to post 
some more pictures in a little while and not mention the lenses used...






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On 26/02/2012 04:53, Richard Man wrote:
> Took the Perar 28 for a bike ride to downtown. Totally disgusted at Larry
> Page new mansion - a 3 story thing that will dwarf even the big houses
> around it.
>
> Anyway, back to the Perar 28. Mark is right in the sense that the out of
> focus area, particularly close to the corners, the OoF image just sort of
> have a shear look to them. I am sure there's a technical term for this type
> of aberration. This is a bit unusual lens for me as I mostly have late
> versions of sharp lens, e.g. 50 'lux ASPH, 35 'lux ASPH, 85/2 Sonnar, 25 ZM
> etc. and of course the XPan lens are also without peer.
>
> So the question is, does the rest of the image quality and the size
> advantage compensates for this flaw? You be the judge:
>
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/Perar28/
>
> Still not a whole lot of processing, but I did fix some vignetting using
> LR. One thing about the Perar is that it is quite sharp at the focused
> area. Looking at these images, I am quite happy with them. The lens is tiny
> and is a joy to use. It's not for everybody but it works for me. If I am
> going out explicitly for shooting, then a better lens will be warranted but
> for the "always have a camera with you" situation, it works quite well
> enough. If you use it on one of the mirrorless cameras with smaller sensor,
> then even the corner performance is not going to be an issue.
>
> The Perar 35 does not have this issue and I think is optically superior.
> However, the handling is not as nice as the Perar 28.
>
>