Great all-purpose manual prime for the NEX7

Taken with a pre-asph 50mm Summilux and macro adapter.

Found an incredible deal for a Mint Leica Elmarit 28mm e46 and decided that it was just too good too miss...

Translates into a 41mm on a NEX body, really similar to the 35mm equivalent lens of the x100. A little tighter, but hardly noticable when shooting. As a retrofocus it has far less red in the corners than other wide angles, negligible at f2.8, virtually non-existant from f4. A very, very slight yellow band is also noticable on the top edge, but only when shooting grey cards at -2ev.

A few more pics



9-blade aperture produces nice sunstars

My NEX lens lineup. Tried to capture the color of each coating layer with limited success

As to IQ, impressivly good. Center is dead sharp even wide open, comparable or better than the 18mm Distagon ZM, a lens Zeiss markets as being super-sharp. Corners are slightly soft at f2.8, but as sharp as the center from f4 onwards. Rendition is rather netural and distortion is really not an issue. So much better than canon's 28mm prime.

Rendition has every bit of the old Leica look. The newer 28mm Elmarit with aspherical elements is a little sharper and physically a lot smaller, but I really think this version looks better.

At f2.8, the red corners are noticable. This is, however, really a worst case scenario with the overcast sky and snow.

Crop of corner. No smearing at all!

Some shots I took of a brief trip to Chapel Hill

ISO 6400 on the NEX7 is not pleasent at all...

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too lazy for DSLRs:-)