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Canon vs Leica

How the legendary (old) Leica 35 f2 pre-asph compares to the excellent Canon 35 f1.4 L ?
The leica lens stands on a M6,
the canon lens is mounted on a eos 1V and a 5D.

A Pro TriX film (400 ASA) is shot on the M6 until half, and, to get consistent results, rewinded and put into the canon 1V for the last shots. The film is developped with Kodak D-76 (1+1) at 20°C. Then it is scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V (50); the results presented here are obtained with a 8 bit scan depth.

5D pictures are shot in RAW, then processed with lightroom.
I took 5D pictures in 400 ASA. I could have used 100 ASA to get the best results. But then I would have chosen a 100 ASA film to compare with!
One 5D shot is processed in Photoshop with a plugin emulating TriX film (from a color picture): http://www.le-point-g.ch/fhw/trix/tri-x.atn

If you have some comment on the results, go ahead, leave me a comment!

Edit: since this test, I noticed the TriX it at is best at ASA 200. I'll redo the tests some day!


1V vs Leica.jpg
1V vs Leica.jpg
5D vs Leica.jpg
5D vs Leica.jpg
5D-processedTriX vs Leica
5D-processedTriX vs Leica
5D vs Leica
5D vs Leica
1V vs Leica
1V vs Leica
canon 5D 35mm at f5.6
canon 5D 35mm at f5.6
5D_CS2-TriX
5D_CS2-TriX
canon1V 35mm at f5.6
canon1V 35mm at f5.6
Leica M6 - 35mm at f5.6
Leica M6 - 35mm at f5.6