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I just received my 7A yesterday and am looking forward to adding my tuppence'worth to the useful and pictorially creative info already out there.
In the meanwhile I had the time to take a look at the comparison findings of two lenses selected by the excellent Leica Rumours website, the titular 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 and the Leica Summilux 50mm f1.4, and thought it might be of some interest to re-post their findings here for those of you who are interested and/or unsure as to how 'good' these 7A lenses might perform at the wider - inherently intended - end of the aperture-scale.
I took their sharpness test snaps for the 7A lens and Leica's Summilux lens at both f1.4 and at f2.8 and flipped'n'turned one image so as both could be seen book-matched back to back.
The 7A images are seen to the left in each pairing and the Summilux is to the right.
As can be seen (perhaps surprisingly) the 7A lens clearly has greater powers of definition than the Summilux at both f1.4 and f2.8 apertures (as tested).
THESE ARE NOT MY IMAGES. I AM MERELY THE MONKEY AND NOT THE ORGAN GRINDER...
The LeicaRumours review from which these images were culled can be found here in their original form;
https://leicarumors.com/2017/08/04/7artisans-50mm-f1-1-leica-m-mount-lens-review.aspx/
If I want small, light and surgically-sharp I have my 50mm Summicron and, granted, the 7A is no ASPH Noctilux but it's interesting to think that the 7A can still more than hold its own if the 'wide-open' time comes...
Pip.
In the meanwhile I had the time to take a look at the comparison findings of two lenses selected by the excellent Leica Rumours website, the titular 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 and the Leica Summilux 50mm f1.4, and thought it might be of some interest to re-post their findings here for those of you who are interested and/or unsure as to how 'good' these 7A lenses might perform at the wider - inherently intended - end of the aperture-scale.
I took their sharpness test snaps for the 7A lens and Leica's Summilux lens at both f1.4 and at f2.8 and flipped'n'turned one image so as both could be seen book-matched back to back.
The 7A images are seen to the left in each pairing and the Summilux is to the right.
As can be seen (perhaps surprisingly) the 7A lens clearly has greater powers of definition than the Summilux at both f1.4 and f2.8 apertures (as tested).
THESE ARE NOT MY IMAGES. I AM MERELY THE MONKEY AND NOT THE ORGAN GRINDER...
The LeicaRumours review from which these images were culled can be found here in their original form;
https://leicarumors.com/2017/08/04/7artisans-50mm-f1-1-leica-m-mount-lens-review.aspx/
If I want small, light and surgically-sharp I have my 50mm Summicron and, granted, the 7A is no ASPH Noctilux but it's interesting to think that the 7A can still more than hold its own if the 'wide-open' time comes...
Pip.
