Leica Apo-Summicron-M 35mm f2 ASPH., this is a modern edition lens.
The reasons why I think are that:
- overwhelmingly high resolution
- Sharp image with beautiful and natural bokeh
- 30cm minimum focusing distance which is outside of range finder
- pincushion distortion particularly at corner exists, which needs correction by software such as Lightroom
Let’s see..
Lens design
Simple and cool box and lens case.
Cool.. and very compact lens.
lens with M camera
30cm minimum focusing length
Traditional leica lenses have 70 or 100cm minimum focusing length. However the 35mm lens comes with 30cm which enable us to take wide range of photos.
The focus ring is to be rotated clockwise.
Focusing at range between 30cm to 70cm requires a viewfinder as the rangefinder cannot follow the range.
When taking photos at this range, 30-70cm, I firstly take rough measurement by eye, then rotate the focus ring quickly to around 0.3-0.4m, finally press the LV button.
Photos
I feel this lens describes light very beautiful.
Pincushion type distortion around corners
This lens is presumably designed to be used with Photo editing software such as Lightroom. Because pincushion type distortion is observed as above.
If you enable Lens Corrections on Lightroom it can be resolved.
Distortion of this lens looks not natural. Film camera cannot correct this. Unfortunately even M10-R-Camera’s JPEG remains this distortion.
Vignetting looks strong compared to other Leica lenses. However Lightroom does not automatically correct the vignetting that I think Leica Company thinks vignetting is not bad?
Contemporary Lens
The new lens appears to be targeted on digital cameras with photo-editing software because of its minimum focusing length and distortion around corners. However It could materialize its sharpness and high quality for wide range of situations.
