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It also means you’ll have to be careful with framing your portrait: to get the maximum sharpness wide open, you’ll have to put your subject not too close to the edge. The subject pops out of the soft en technically inferior out of centre areas. Even better, I like this kind of rendering, because it creates a romantic and 3D like effect. For shooting portraits, this is not a problem at all. Towards the edges, the image quality decreases significantly and the lens becomes soft and suffers from lens aberrations. I’ve read that people consider the 50 Lux V2 to be a soft lens, but that is not true at all. Actually, I was surprised with the amount of sharpness. This 50 Summilux V2 was designed by Mandler and this can be seen in its signature. Of course, when shooting this lens against the sun, it does flare (quite a bit) but when used in a more moderate way, it does keep the flare out.īut even if you do shoot it against the sun, detail is still pretty good.Ī lot has been said about the Leica look, or the Leica glow. It’s solid (otherwise it wouldn’t last 50 years) and effective. The hood, in this case an original one, is clicked on the lens very easily. For me, it’s enough, but for some people this may not.
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Speaking of close up: this lens doesn’t do close up. It just takes a bit more time to get things in focus when you’re switching between close up and far away.
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For portraits it works perfectly, but for fast action, it is a little too long. As you know I don’t like lenses with a short focus throw, but this one is actually too long for my taste. The focus is still smooth, as is the aperture ring. You wouldn’t say that this lens is 50 years old. Well, what can I say, the Lux V2 is built like a tank. Weight wise, the lux is 50 grams heavier. Identical in size: the 50 cron and the 50 Lux V2.