jeff laitila
Established
I spent today shooting with a Perar f3.5 Super -Triplet, production number 021.
I have uploaded 22 full resolution images to my smugmug page here:
http://sushicam.smugmug.com/Sushica...Super-Triplet/13815642_8Lvkp#1012224805_L3oUX
All of the shots were taken with a Leica M9, shot RAW, and converted to JPEG with zero post-processing. That means no auto-levels, no sharpening, no nothing. These are straight out of the camera, and no lens detection was used, so no in-camera vignetting adjustments were made.
There is a mixture of close focus, mid focus, and far focus samples. Most of the shots were made either wide open at f3.5, or stopped down to f8.
I also included one series of images shot (hand held) throughout the entire aperture range: 3.5 - 4 - 5.6 - 8 - 11 - 16 - 22 (?) The last one is a guess since the lens will stop down past f16, but it is not marked with any number. In this series of shots I was focusing in the center of the frame on the numbers (109) on the side of the building, and since the numbers are in the distance, that is why parts of the image looks soft at the wider apertures.
I also included a worse case scenario flare test, just to see what would happen. (It isn't pretty)
I know a lot of people are interested to see how this lens performs, particularly on full frame. So feel free to download these images and play around with them.
After todays shooting, I can say this: This is one SMALL lens! It's like walking around with just a body cap on your camera.
I found the ergonomics of the lens to be more than acceptable. Although it does not have click-stops for the aperture, so you do have to check to make sure you are setting it properly. The focus throw is short, and very nicely damped. The pin used to assist with focusing is perfectly placed and is very nice to use.
I was pleasantly surprised at the corner sharpness, and limited amount of vignetting. (I was personally hoping it would vignette more than it did, but that can be taken care of in post)
The colors are accurate, and sharpness is good. To sum it up, other than the flare issue that I purposefully induced in that one shot, all the rest of the days images turned out just fine.
I LIKE this little lens! 🙂
I have uploaded 22 full resolution images to my smugmug page here:
http://sushicam.smugmug.com/Sushica...Super-Triplet/13815642_8Lvkp#1012224805_L3oUX
All of the shots were taken with a Leica M9, shot RAW, and converted to JPEG with zero post-processing. That means no auto-levels, no sharpening, no nothing. These are straight out of the camera, and no lens detection was used, so no in-camera vignetting adjustments were made.
There is a mixture of close focus, mid focus, and far focus samples. Most of the shots were made either wide open at f3.5, or stopped down to f8.
I also included one series of images shot (hand held) throughout the entire aperture range: 3.5 - 4 - 5.6 - 8 - 11 - 16 - 22 (?) The last one is a guess since the lens will stop down past f16, but it is not marked with any number. In this series of shots I was focusing in the center of the frame on the numbers (109) on the side of the building, and since the numbers are in the distance, that is why parts of the image looks soft at the wider apertures.
I also included a worse case scenario flare test, just to see what would happen. (It isn't pretty)
I know a lot of people are interested to see how this lens performs, particularly on full frame. So feel free to download these images and play around with them.
After todays shooting, I can say this: This is one SMALL lens! It's like walking around with just a body cap on your camera.
I found the ergonomics of the lens to be more than acceptable. Although it does not have click-stops for the aperture, so you do have to check to make sure you are setting it properly. The focus throw is short, and very nicely damped. The pin used to assist with focusing is perfectly placed and is very nice to use.
I was pleasantly surprised at the corner sharpness, and limited amount of vignetting. (I was personally hoping it would vignette more than it did, but that can be taken care of in post)
The colors are accurate, and sharpness is good. To sum it up, other than the flare issue that I purposefully induced in that one shot, all the rest of the days images turned out just fine.
I LIKE this little lens! 🙂
