Zeiss ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon Aperture Series: Big Laurel At Alpine Creek (Leica M11)
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This aperture series from f/1.4 through f/16 looks at total image quality and especially sharpness on a 3D landscape scene.
The Zeiss ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon is one of the finest rangefinder lenses available for the Leica M cameras (best or nearly so)*. But can it deliver the goods for the demanding resolution of the 60-megapixel Leica M11?
Zeiss ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon Aperture Series: Big Laurel At Alpine Creek
Includes images up to full resolution from f/1.4 to f/16, plus a 2-frame focus stack at f/9, plus crops.
Leica M11 image quality at ISO 64 is spectacularly good. If you’re an M shooter, you must have this camera! I’d love to own one, but it’s too far out of range for me.
* Until the appearance of the Leica 35mm f/2 APO-Summicron-M ASPH and Voigtlander offerings, I would have called the ZM35/1.4 king-of-the-heap. But probably the Leica 35/2 APO-Summicron-M ASPH is superior—not yet tested as I write this.
View: and and
LEICA M11 + Voigtlander M APO-Lanthar 50mm f/2 Aspherical
ENV: Alpine Creek, altitude 550 ft / 168 m, 58°F / 14°C
RAW: LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, pull 0.17 stops, +20 Whites, +10 Clarity, USM {4,50,0}, diffraction mitigating sharpening, SmartSharpen{40,0.8,20,0}
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