That is not a battle between two brands that made the history of photography: it’s an interrupted dialogue between two labs or schools of thought. micro contrast, cool vs warm tones, natural vs saturated colors, brushstrokes of light and shade vs sculptural three-dimensionality. Think about the Leica Summicron 90: three-dimensional, and with little contrast in its early versions, compared to the latest ones: now we have super sharpness, super micro contrast, super resolving power, but we lost, with the old “defects”, even a bit of “magic”. If we take a classic portrait focal length from 80-90mm at f/1.4, the trained eye would identify immediately the peculiarities of a brand over another, or even how, the same optic has evolved over time in its various versions.
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If you want to try it by yourself, take a subject and shoot a series of portraits with different lenses. In this page I included shots certainly not exciting, but useful to understand the differences when we shoot wide open: where maybe it’s more clear the lens “soul”. Chromatic aberrations some would say, poetry would have said instead Dr. The unique “Leica glow” and watercolor bokeh of the Summilux 80 1.4. Finally, others still believe that such a glass could not exist at that time, and therefore the project, perfect on paper, had to wait further innovations by Wetzlar.Įvery lens has a character, and sees (and thus renders to us) reality in a different way. Some argued that Mandler had reached a result that was considered impossible, thanks to his studies on fluorite. Others said he had designed the perfect schema on paper (no super computers!) and, only after, he would have made the optical parameters of the glasses needed. In 1975 the Leica-R 180mm f/3.4 Apo Telyt was extended by Leitz also to private market: the product of Walter Mandler, head of the laboratory of Midland, Ontario, was already part of legend. The requirements were: superior resolving power, sharp wide open from the center to the edges, especially at infinity, apochromatic correction extended into the infrared, excellent portability. Navy commissioned Leitz Canada designing a telephoto lens for surveillance purposes. Uncommon use of the famous Apo Telyt that definitely gives its best at infinity.Īn example.
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