The Panasonic – Leica 25 1.4 Summilux Lens Review for Micro 4/3 Finally! The lens I waited months for finally arrived! The Panasonic/Leica 25 1.4 Summilux is a very important lens for Micro 4/3 users because it FINALLY gives us a 50mm equivalent focal length with a fast aperture of 1.4! Woo Hoo! When the 1st [Read More...]
The Leica 35 Summilux DOUBLE ASPHERICAL (AA) Lens Review - A Classic FULL of Magic! By Steve Huff Video Correction – This lens was introduced in 1990-1991 and only 1000-2000 were made. The much more common ASPH was brought out in 1994. So, this lens was NOT released in the 70;s as the video [Read More...]
The Leica 90 Elmarit M f/2.8 Lens Review By Steve Huff Wow, this review has been 6 months in the making! Not that it has taken me 6 months to write it, but it has taken me 6 months to complete it because I sold my original 90 Elmarit a few months ago! Why? Well, [Read More...]
The Panasonic 45 Macro F2.8 Lens Review for Micro 4/3 By Steve Huff Macro. Not really a specialty of mine but I have to admit that there have been times when I wished I had a macro lens for some cool insect or flower shot. When Panasonic released their 45 Macro lens for Micro 4/3 [Read More...]
It’s now “official”! The last announcement was more of a leak, but this one is direct from Leica to me! The new 35 Lux ASPH is officially announced and will be heading to dealers in the coming weeks. I have had the pleasure of seeing, holding and shooting with this new revised lens and one word: [Read More...]
The Zeiss ZM 35 Biogon Lens Review Hello to all! I am back again with yet another lens review for the Leica M mount! Today I will be writing about and reviewing the Zeiss 35 Biogon F2 lens. I remember when this lens was released it was causing quite the stir because it was gearing [Read More...]
Just a quick note to say I updated my list of recommended lenses from Leica. I have a page here listing my top faves and how I feel about them on the M8 and M9! You can see that list HERE.
The Zeiss Biogon 35 F2 and the Leica 35 Summarit F2.5. Both great lenses and two that I have been shooting side by side on the Leica M9. I know, I know…I put up a comparison of these two already but I was not really 100% happy with that one as the shots were taken [Read More...]
Leica Lenses and their names. ELMAR – ELMARIT – SUMMARIT – SUMMICRON – SUMMILUX – NOCTILUX – What do they mean? I see many Leica newbies to this site and I get asked quite often what those funky names mean. You know the ones. Those odd sounding names Leica gives to its lenses? Summarit? Elmar? [Read More...]
Zeiss ZM 50 Planar Review: Well its about time! You guys have been asking for more Zeiss ZM love around here and I am continuing on with the 50 Planar test! I have had four of these Zeiss ZM lenses here for a month or so and have been so busy with the Leica Noctilux, [Read More...]
My Leica Lens Recomendations I have been getting quite a few e-mails recently (about 30-40 a day in general) with many of them asking me which lenses to buy for the Leica M8 and M9. After answering a few of those e-mails today I decided HEY, why not write an article about it. I have [Read More...]
THIS IS JUST A QUICK -N-DIRTY FIRST IMPRESSION POST – A FULL BIG REVIEW WILL BE COMING SOON!! I will also have comparisons with the old Noctilux, so look out for that, SOON! UPS just arrived and delivered the Leica Noctilux F0.95 50mm lens! All I can say is WOW, the build on this thing [Read More...]
LEICA 8-15% PRICE HIKES AFTER JANUARY 1st 2010! DAMN, IT IS OFFICIAL! Leica Camera is raising their prices by 8-15% on ALL lenses as well as the D-Lux 4. How is this possible you ask? Well, they seem to do it every year but Leica nuts still continue to make purchases. The good news is [Read More...]
Leica Wide Angle Tri-Elmar Review. Welcome to another Leica lens review! This time its the ultimate wide angle M lens, the WATE! It has been A Craaaazyyy week for me. In the 10 months since starting my site I have never been this busy! I have no less than 8 products here I have to [Read More...]
I love FAST 50′s! Voigtlander 50 Nokton 1.1 Review – Out of all the lens reviews I have posted to date for the Leica M, none have created the amount of e-mails to my inbox as this Voigtlander 50 Nokton 1.1. Ever since mentioning on this blog that I received it, and was testing it [Read More...]
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