{"id":8871,"date":"2014-07-12T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2014-07-12T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T13:06:16","slug":"leitz-350-mm-telyt-r-on-leica-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=8871","title":{"rendered":"Leitz 350 mm Telyt-R on Leica M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Mandler\" target=\"_blank\"><b style=\"color: #252525;\">Walter Mandler<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0designed Leitz 350 mm Telyt-R delivers gorgeous bokeh; and on the R8\/DMR, in high contrast, bright sunlight, can also deliver some unpleasant chromatic aberration (CA). I hoped that when I put this incredibly well built and heavy lens on my coded M&gt;R adapter and chose 350 Telyt in the M (type 240) Manual Lens menu &#8211; that I&#8217;d no longer see the CA &#8211; or at least see less of it. First I was disappointed to see that the lens did not appear in the menu; so I chose the nearest 280 Apo in the menu &#8211; and fantasized about owning that gorgeous piece of glass. Then I went out and made two hand held &#8220;tests.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was delighted to see that the focus assist actually did &#8220;assist&#8221; even as I&#8217;m still getting used to the whole EVF viewing thing on a still camera. Video experience makes the process slightly less painful than it must be for long time SLR-only users. I was quickly reminded by my left forearm how heavy this lens truly is (or how weak I&#8217;m becoming\u2014or both).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I took the files into the computer and opened them in Lightroom &#8211; I was mildly happy to see that it appeared that the CA was &#8220;a bit less&#8221; than might have been expected on a DMR file (though the overcast skies did not provide a very harsh test). I&#8217;ll have to attach the shoulder stock, monopod and\/or tripod &#8211; on a bright sunny day &#8211; to take this testing to the next level. Though first thoughts when looking at the 350-telyt-M-240 combination resulted in my usual, &#8220;damn I love Leica cameras and lenses&#8221; reaction\u00a0\u2014 from the pleasures of holding, mounting, and focusing extremely well designed and built photographic tools through to viewing the beauty of the images they produce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/L1000175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8872 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/L1000175-e1405168311119.jpg\" alt=\"L1000175\" width=\"800\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">below &#8211; one of my bonsai experiments<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/L1000176.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8873 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/L1000176-e1405168337841.jpg\" alt=\"L1000176\" width=\"618\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica M, 350 mm Telyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Walter Mandler\u00a0designed Leitz 350 mm Telyt-R delivers gorgeous bokeh; and on the R8\/DMR, in high contrast, bright sunlight, can also deliver some unpleasant chromatic aberration (CA). I hoped that when I put this incredibly well built and heavy lens on my coded M&gt;R adapter and chose 350 Telyt in the M (type 240) Manual Lens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,33,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-natural-world","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8875,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions\/8875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}