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Raid, from what I have read and heard during the time when I researched the 16/8 prior tofinding a sample, DAG was always named as the first shop to use for the best possible conversion in the US. You are surely in good hands.
As I read you have a M240 with live view to try, do try it - it is one of the few camera bodies that allows full metering and even live view for most precise framing.
Regarding the 21/4 CV lens I am of no help as I never had a sample of these to try. What one reads and sees though it is a highly recommended 21mm to be used on the Leica M, both film and digital.
The comparison is also quite far apart.
The M8 sensor has without e shadow of a doubt a better acuity on the pixel level (difference in the sensor glass layer design between M8 and M9).
The Hologon is without a doubt among the very sharpest and across the frame most even performing “21mm” (on the M8).
I do not know at all how the 21/4 CV compares in this regard.
Should the Hologon show more resolution, maybe the lower sensor resolution of the M8 vs M9 is “caught up” with those two theoretical advantages, maybe not. This would be interesting to see in a direct comparison.
I could offer another comparison once back, but unfortunately my M9 is still out of service (sensor corrosion), as I seem to have quite a collection of 21mm lenses - no 21/4 CV among them but a 21/3.4 SEM among a few others. I chalk this down on my “to do out of curiosity list” ;-)
In any event the biggest limitation of the Hologon will always be it’s value in practicality, having a fixed aperture of f8 + making the use of it’s centre filter quite mandatory as of the strong light falloff and it’s strong drawbacks when planning to use it on full frame digital sensors.
There was a link to a blog post in this thread earlier where the Hologon was tested on a Sony full frame mirrorless camera - this makes that issue most apparent (as apparently those Sony mirrorless perform the worst among the full frame sensor options as of their sensor design not being suited to such extreme symmetrical wide angle designs with heavily smeared outer perimeters).
As I read you have a M240 with live view to try, do try it - it is one of the few camera bodies that allows full metering and even live view for most precise framing.
Regarding the 21/4 CV lens I am of no help as I never had a sample of these to try. What one reads and sees though it is a highly recommended 21mm to be used on the Leica M, both film and digital.
The comparison is also quite far apart.
The M8 sensor has without e shadow of a doubt a better acuity on the pixel level (difference in the sensor glass layer design between M8 and M9).
The Hologon is without a doubt among the very sharpest and across the frame most even performing “21mm” (on the M8).
I do not know at all how the 21/4 CV compares in this regard.
Should the Hologon show more resolution, maybe the lower sensor resolution of the M8 vs M9 is “caught up” with those two theoretical advantages, maybe not. This would be interesting to see in a direct comparison.
I could offer another comparison once back, but unfortunately my M9 is still out of service (sensor corrosion), as I seem to have quite a collection of 21mm lenses - no 21/4 CV among them but a 21/3.4 SEM among a few others. I chalk this down on my “to do out of curiosity list” ;-)
In any event the biggest limitation of the Hologon will always be it’s value in practicality, having a fixed aperture of f8 + making the use of it’s centre filter quite mandatory as of the strong light falloff and it’s strong drawbacks when planning to use it on full frame digital sensors.
There was a link to a blog post in this thread earlier where the Hologon was tested on a Sony full frame mirrorless camera - this makes that issue most apparent (as apparently those Sony mirrorless perform the worst among the full frame sensor options as of their sensor design not being suited to such extreme symmetrical wide angle designs with heavily smeared outer perimeters).
