Category: photography

After hunting several days for a thunderstorm I finally got a shot of some lightning, captured with the new Summilux-M 35mm ASPH. The photo was taken at Saturday night in Ronco at the Lago Maggiore, Switzerland.

Some more pictures are posted in the 35mm Summilux ASPH gallery. Please click on the picture below.

Some DNG’s of the new Leica Summilux-M 35mm ASPH. uploaded for people interested in pixel peeping.

Farmers house, shot at f/2 which is not very sensible for such a subject. It would have been much better to use an aperture of 4 or even 5.6 to take this frontal shot.

The barn was taken with f/1.4, f/4 and f/6.7. Be aware that I was located somewhat higher then the barn, so it is not a frontal shot. The focus was on a knothole above the middle beam of the door.

Please follow the instructions to download the DNG’s:

ftp ftp.rangefinder.ch
Username: downloads@rangefinder.ch
No password.

All the best!

More photos with the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH. are online. I did some crops to show the sharpness and bokeh of this lens.

Please click on the picture at the bottom.

Jonathan Slack did by coincidence post some very nice pictures taken with the new Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH., the Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH and the Summicron-M 75mm f/2 ASPH.. Its shows nicely the bokeh  of these lenses: ‘Jonathan Slack – July 10th – the hottest day of the year’

IMO the 35mm lens does not have the nicest bokeh of these lenses, indeed. On some pictures the background looks somewhat harsh.

It depends very much on the subject which you are going to take. For landscape and street or general shooting it is excellent lens. Just my opinion…

Reviews may be found at Erwin Puts TAO OF LEICA and Steve Huff’s page.

I did upload a new gallery with some example pictures of the latest Leica Summilux-M 35mm ASPH.
A really gorgeous lens! I did not experience any focus shift. It is razor sharp.
The only concern might be the somewhat strange distortion. But on most pictures it is not to see anyway.
Enjoy!