As a young photographer, I always had a feeling of lust, awe even for Leica glass. Later, that migrated more to a genuine preference for Carl Zeiss, who it turned out, pre-date leica as the “lustful” brand.
My second* Leica arrived today and mere minutes later I have “quick and dirty” tested it.
Hand held, 1600 wide open at 12mm. The following four are the (slightly distorted by the shooting angle) corner shots with no processing applied.
This thing looks well aligned and seriously sharp.
At 40mm, same “perfect” technique. This is apparently the focal length that blows away some test charts.
Wide open at the long end, nice Bokeh.
A crop from above, it looks sharp enough
Like a lot of high end lenses, it takes sharpening well.
A very nice feeling lens, with silent focus, inperceptible stabilising and great sharpness through the range and across the frame.
So far, my Lumix experimanet has provided me with two excellent cameras and three equally excellent matched lenses for about $4500au.
Nice.