Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2

Best seen in a larger size over a dark background (just click image above). One of a series of test shots using the Sony NEX-5 as a camera back for Leica and Nikon lenses. This one was with the Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron-R lens modified to a Nikon F mount by Leitax, which then works with the Novoflex Nikon adapter for the E-mount on the Sony NEX-5 camera. A little convoluted, but it works beautifully! According to Ken Rockwell ( www.kenrockwell.com/leica/50mm-f2-m.htm ) , "There is no better 50mm lens on Earth than the LEICA SUMMICRON-M 50mm f/2", and "The SUMMICRON is the world's reference for a 50mm photographic lens." Even the more expensive Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux and the even more expensive Leica 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux lenses are inevitably compared to how they perform at f/2 onwards compared to the 50mm Summicron. With good reason, too. I have never seen a sharper 50mm lens than Leica 50mm Summicron. It is simply amazing how crisp the images are even with the lens wide open at f/2. However, as my flickr friend Norbert ( www.flickr.com/photos/tacheles/with/5438389520/ ) pointed out a couple of months ago, the Summicron is not the greatest bokeh lens. The lens is so sharp that even its bokeh is sharp. It is amazing how the lens actually renders out of focus point sources of light with borders! You can see them here. The bokeh is not as buttery as with the Leica Noctilux 50/0.95 or the Nikon NOCT Nikkor 58/1.2 or the Nikon 85/1.4G lenses. But the Summicron is interesting in its own way, rather like a cinema star who may not be beautiful by classic definition of beauty, but is very appealing, nevertheless. The little Sony works very nicely with the lens, letting the lens to its thing, and not getting in the way. Of course, on the Sony, the 50/2 lens is more like a 75/2. SONY Alpha NEX-5 + Novoflex Adapter + Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2 DSC00237 Foto Roy Prasad

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