I know you have been waiting for the reports on old lenses. So many people have been talking about old lenses and there're some very good websites that provide useful information. I leave the technical stuff to these sources, and on this website I will briefly talk about my impressions and give you some handling advices. Speaking of Leica's 28mm, there're the Elmarit, the old Hektor, and the Summaron that I pick up this time. I like it very much because it takes great pictures despite the body-cap-like tininess. This lens has the unique clarity: it's not clear like the modern lenses, but it does have a certain clarity that is hard to describe in words. When this clarity is combined with the dramatic falloff wide open, you should be addicted to this lens. Just like the Summaron 35mm, the color is very rich. I guess this lens is suitable to underexpose "large scenes" in a distance of 3 meters or further. Leica's slower old lenses are great and you will understand what I'm talking about as you read our future reports. Of course, this Summaron is no exception and it's truly a sweet lens.
( Text : K )
The falloff is dynamic wide open, and just by that, it provides dramatic images. F5.6 makes indoor shooting harder, but on a digital camera, it's no problem because we can always raise the ISO. The texture drawing of the plastic bottle is very nice. It's very sharp wide open, too.
I thought there're many cats because it's a fishing port, but she said she feeds them. They gather from nowhere once she brings food. The drawing is very solid. Everyone is attracted by fast lenses in the beginning, but I strongly recommend Leica's slower lenses starting from around f3.5 including this Summaron, because I never had any bad impression on them.
If you shoot straight against the sunshine, you almost always get a ring-shaped ghost like this and you should take advantage of it.
