Fred Miranda wrote: nehemiahphoto wrote:
Given this isn’t a super close replica of the original, I wish the MFD was appreciably shorter—most of new RF glass is at least 0.5 meters (MS Optics, CV, Simera, Leica’s). Simple miss.
I will be curious to know who is actually replacing their current 35/1.4 with this LLL. To me, that is the real test. Not if a lens can produce nice images, but if it is a viable option for people to replace their current lens. I asked the same question in the 50 Simera thread.
I actually like the Light Lens Lab version for environmental portraits, since it has slightly higher spherical aberration. The FLE is definitely more clinical with higher contrast, which I also appreciate in a different way.
These are straight out of the camera using Adobe Standard, shot wide open.
That's one of the reasons I kept the Leica Pre FLE for so many years as my first intent for the lens was portrait and moderate distance use, often shot wide open and usually if I needed to put it into service for distant landscapes, I almost always shot them stopped down, even if I also was using the FLE (Ver 1) at the time. The somewhat lower more gentle contrast of the Pre FLE could usually be delt with in post processing in most cases if need be.
The LLL lens if indeed matches closely the Leica 35mm f1.4 Pre FLE in optical characteristics with few drawbacks and certainly no focus shift to speak of, it will definitely be a desirable lens.
Love the causal holiday family portraits and the night shots at the posted image size look good. Its hard to say how the bokeh balls in these images would look compared to the FLE of even the Pre FLE.
