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The Leica Glow
The Leica Glow
The Leica Glow got nothing to do with Leica lenses' ability to reproduce candlelights. It has to do with the Leica glass' ability to 'find' light in the shadows where other lenses finds nothing or very little. Typically around the edges of fast wide angle lenses.
The best example I know, where this is demonstrated, is Sean Reid's lens tests. Typical is the test of different wide angle lenses for the RD-1 here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/rd-1-lens.shtml
Look also up his tests of fast lenses on RD-1:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/fastlensreview.shtml
The differences shown here in Sean Reid's tests are marginal. But, don't forget; RD-1 is a camera with 1,5 crop factor. The difference, I am sure, is more pronounced when testing the same lenses, say, on a M9 (or just any film M-camera).
Nor is it like this that Leica is the only one that can reproduce this effect. Some of the Carl Zeiss lenses have the same ability. Like the ZM 25 mm 2,8.
The Leica Glow
The Leica Glow got nothing to do with Leica lenses' ability to reproduce candlelights. It has to do with the Leica glass' ability to 'find' light in the shadows where other lenses finds nothing or very little. Typically around the edges of fast wide angle lenses.
The best example I know, where this is demonstrated, is Sean Reid's lens tests. Typical is the test of different wide angle lenses for the RD-1 here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/rd-1-lens.shtml
Look also up his tests of fast lenses on RD-1:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/fastlensreview.shtml
The differences shown here in Sean Reid's tests are marginal. But, don't forget; RD-1 is a camera with 1,5 crop factor. The difference, I am sure, is more pronounced when testing the same lenses, say, on a M9 (or just any film M-camera).
Nor is it like this that Leica is the only one that can reproduce this effect. Some of the Carl Zeiss lenses have the same ability. Like the ZM 25 mm 2,8.