28mm Summicron ASPH Photos

[menos]

I couldn't find a thread like this - can this be true?

I just bought my 28 Summicron back and have now the first moments with the lens again:

Share your shots here !

 

[menos]

A few shots more with the 28 Summicron + M9:

 

[joseph_galilee]

Does not seem an aspheric lens, because black and white looks like a classic Leitz lens, with a beautiful gray scale.
However, it is an excellent tool for the reportage and the bokeh is lovable.
I think it's the best fast 28mm available.

Beautiful photos... bravo!

שלום

 

[brbo]

I wanted a fast (strike ZM 2,8/25 and 2,8/28), well-behaving (strike CV 28/2), modern and small (strike CV 28/1.9) 35 equivalent that would spend 90% of time on my M8. I mainly shoot colour.

At first I thought that there is no way that I'm going to spend that kind of money on a single lens, but you can guess the end result...

I like it. But, I now use it mostly on M6 and use M8 less and less and if that continues and I should sell the M8 I would probably have no problem selling 28/2 and buying Zeiss Biogon 2/35. But on the other hand, I've come to like 28mm on FF...

 

[semilog]

SO nice. The rendering looks a LOT like the 35/2.8 C-Biogon. It's the only current Leica lens that I've seriously thought about buying.

 

[mfogiel]

20113908 by mfogiel, on Flickr

 

[semilog]

WOW. You are definitely not helping me to not buy this lens. :bang:

20113908 by mfogiel, on Flickr

 

[mfogiel]

I bought this lens mainly for how it performs wide open - like in the photo above.

 

[LChanyungco]

awesome photo. which yacht is yours ?

20113908 by mfogiel, on Flickr

 

[semordnilap]

 

[seakayaker1]

. . . . . do not own but had the opportunity to use a 28 cron from a couple of hours last summer.

M9 ~ 28 Cron

 

[mmradman]

Like this one, Dirk you made ladies smile, share the joke.

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[menos]

This thread is taking off to a nice start ;-) Keep them coming !!!

Mladen - it's no specific joke, just making fun ;-) Works always (almost).

Here is another subject - You will find, that in a city as Shanghai, there are many very fortunate children, raised with iPhones, designer clothing, jewelry, taken out in Lamborghini, Porsche and alike to the finest restaurants for dinner and brought to private schools, to ensure maximum safety for the child's bright future.

There always is the other side, as seen in one of the many demolition sites around Shanghai - here a site, that is currently in demolition status.
Children, likely of workers, who came to Shanghai for labor are playing around the place, given to their parents for living during their time of work, dissecting old buildings, recycling bricks and evening the land for the next construction of high risers (you can see the Shanghai Financial Center, the biggest tower currently in Shanghai, in the background):


group of children by teknopunk.com, on Flickr

 

[abumac]

More from Buddhas Birthday with the 28 Cron, Asph: http://mimpresion.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/buddhas-geburtstag.html

 

[hausen]

Orewa Beach by BigHausen, on Flickr


Velvia Street Art by BigHausen, on Flickr


Orewa Beach Flare by BigHausen, on Flickr


Velvia Street Art by BigHausen, on Flickr

 

[Hosermage]

Time to wake this thread 🙂 I just got mine recently.

 

[Vics]

Dirk, they loo0k like fine pictures, but the image size is so large I have to scroll back and forth to see them on my laptop. Wish I could see the whole picture on my screen.

 

[sleepyhead]

I think that Pieter above nailed it when he wrote: "smooth but sharp rendering"

My copy of the 28/2 Summicron is scarily sharp - easily sharper than the Zeiss 25/2.8 Biogon that I had before (but that lens did wobble abit...). It is truly a lens designed to be used mainly wide open. Because then the smoooth-sharp rendering is most apparent. Yes, it does vignette somewhat wide open, but I find that it actually improves many photos because it automatically de-clutters the (wide angle) photo and focuses attention to the centre. However, maybe half the time I compose with interesting subject matter a the edges of photos, so I do sometimes have to lighten up the corners/edges in photoshop for that reason.

 

[sleepyhead]

This picture illustrates the beneficial effects of the vignetting of this lens. See the luminousity on the boy and the rock compared to the corners of the picture. (Of course it also has to do with the patch of sunlight he's sitting in...)

 

[Richard G]

I should not have visited this thread. Thanks God I already have the 28 2.8 ASPH which snookers me for the Summicron, I hope.