recomendations for 28mm f(<=2.8)

Forget <= 2.8 and get the CV 28/3.5. It's just half stop, and at that FOV f3.5 is hand-holdable to quite slow speeds. You get back great image and built quality and it's tiny. You won't need new filters, too, since you already have the CV 21.

Best,

Roland.
 
At the moment i'm very interested in ergonomics and build quality. I have not had the chance to hold the G2 in my hands but from the pictures, it looks 'sexy' and 'mean'. Perhaps a bit bulky it's hard to say without trying it. Not sure about finding them cheap though, at least not from ebay where a half decent battered body exceeds £500 and a mint one is £800 . Will definatly look out for these in my local camera stores. I don't think i'd ever buy one because film is not 'yet' my thing but having one of these digital would certainly appeal to me.
So far all my film photography is done using a Ricoh GR1 :) which also has a supeb lens. In fact their lens is so good it exists in M mount but at an unreasonable price of nearly £700. I think the M-hexanon is probably the best value for money from what i have understood so far.
 
peppermill said:
At the moment i'm very interested in ergonomics and build quality. I have not had the chance to hold the G2 in my hands but from the pictures, it looks 'sexy' and 'mean'. Perhaps a bit bulky it's hard to say without trying it. Not sure about finding them cheap though, at least not from ebay where a half decent battered body exceeds £500 and a mint one is £800 . Will definatly look out for these in my local camera stores. I don't think i'd ever buy one because film is not 'yet' my thing but having one of these digital would certainly appeal to me.
So far all my film photography is done using a Ricoh GR1 :) which also has a supeb lens. In fact their lens is so good it exists in M mount but at an unreasonable price of nearly £700. I think the M-hexanon is probably the best value for money from what i have understood so far.
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G2s are /were fantastic cameras in every way. If there had been a digi I would have bought 3. Lenses ..well couldn't be beaten esp the 21mm. Had everything Leica should have had except the badge ..there lies the rub that bloody red spot.
I had 4 of them ..light small, fast, 200th flash sync ,robust and once you got used to the autofocus and relying on it nothing better.
Had to go dig but if I didn't and there was a digi G2 the M8 would have been a Joke and Leica would never have put it on the market.
 
Just received my M-Hexanon 28/2.8

Just received my M-Hexanon 28/2.8

The lens feels great, smooth and i like the look better than my voigtlander ones. Need to take it out over lunch take a few shots. Not sure about the absence of the little notch, was getting quite used to that :). Lastly the lens is pretty heavy making my R-D1 even more of a leathal weapon :D
 
Hi,

I have a small question regarding low light with the m-hexanon. Mine seems to produce a lot of flare when very low light. Perhaps this is me mishandling the thing though :)

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/244826/EPSN2816d.jpg

This quick test show was taken lens wide open, iso 800 1/20 sec. Not saying i don't like it, just i'm not used to seeing the lights like this. Perhaps different settings will make the lights look different?

Tom
 
The sensor of the R-D1 may cause halos like that around the corners but the shape of the halos make me think of coma. I have no experience with this lens though.
 
ferider said:
Forget <= 2.8 and get the CV 28/3.5. It's just half stop, and at that FOV f3.5 is hand-holdable to quite slow speeds. You get back great image and built quality and it's tiny. You won't need new filters, too, since you already have the CV 21.

Best,

Roland.
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f3.5 isn't very limiting with current films and the lens is very well made.

Here's what I've done with it http://www.flickr.com/photos/74312783@N00/tags/voigtlandercolorskopar28mmf35/
and here is the work of others http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/voigtlandercolorskopar28mmf35/

Easily adapted to M-mount.
 
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