after 16 years of photography i finally made my first lens test.

in the ring: summilux-m 1.4/50mm versus elmar-m 2.8/50mm.

i am no erwin p., so i used the equipment i usually use for my picture taking: leica m6ttl, tri-x @ 400iso in ilford ID11 1+1 for 11 minutes, both pictures taken at f=2.8 on a tripod at a distance of about 2m. i had to crop them a bit otherwise i would give it away, which lens is which. they were scannes with a nikon coolscan IV at full resolution, no photoshop adjustments except resizing were done.

they are definitely different, but who can say which photo was taken by which lens? i'll post the results in a couple of days.

for a larger version go HERE (A)

for a larger version go HERE (B)

-- stefan randlkofer (geesbert@yahoo.com), April 29, 2002

Answers

the links to the large ones didn't work

Picture A: http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display? photo_id=729566&size=lg

Picture B: http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display? photo_id=729569&size=lg

-- stefan randlkofer (geesbert@yahoo.com), April 29, 2002.

The last links aren't working, either.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), April 29, 2002.

picture one, picture two

-- Matthew Geddert (geddert@yahoo.com), April 29, 2002.

that didn't work either... please ignore the two links i created.

-- Matthew Geddert (geddert@yahoo.com), April 29, 2002.

They're all coming up "Picture not available". Bummer, huh!

-- Tim Franklin (tim_franklin@mac.com), April 29, 2002.

Hello Stefan,

nice try, please do not give up. IŽam looking forward to your results.

Best wishes

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), May 02, 2002.

Lens A has smoother bokeh, and slightly more barrel distortion, lens B has ni-san double line type bokeh,looks like from the lux. I have neither, only guessing.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 04, 2002.