Fun with the Leica 50mm APO Summicron-M lens

[bradhusick]

Now that Leica are shipping the flare-fixed 50mm APO-Summicron-M I thought we should start posting photos taken with this extraordinary lens.

Mine's on the way, so please post-away!

:worthless:

 

[erudolph]

I'll kick it off. These were taken with the lens soon after it was initially delivered March of 2013. Subsequently it went to Solms for the flare problem. B&W with the MM, color with the M.

 

[MPK2010]

M + 50 APO








M9 + 50 APO

 

[element-m]

Yay ! great news. Looking forward to seeing more uploads so that I drool a bit more from the mouth. Would love to get this lens.

 

[erudolph]

MM + 50mm AA, a slight crop

 

[bradhusick]

mono + 50 apo wide open

 

[ashwinrao1]

I'll bite

With the MM, it might be the sharpest lens/camera combo I have ever encountered:

Nice OOF too:

Makes for a lovely portrait lens:

Smooth, yet sharp:

 

[ashwinrao1]

Though I did get it to flare in horribly harsh sidelighting...a convenient coincidence in this particular instance

 

[JohnBrew]

I would love to shoot this lens against my Lux ASPH because I can't see any advantage with the AA. At least not on these posted images.

 

[bradhusick]

It's hard to tell any differences in any lenses with on-screen JPEGs. If you look at the original images on a big display or print them you'll see the difference. Steve Huff is getting ready to show some comparisons with the 50 lux in his multi-part review.