A quick test og non-Leica(rangefinder) lenses. Youngest heir Gerda agreed to model on the condition that she was allowed to do (her own) make up and that it wouldn’t take more than 15 minutes in total, and that she would get paid 50 kroners for modelling 🤩
It ended up taking an additional 3.5 minutes for the photographer for which he had to pay over time to the model who ended up with 85kr in her bank account after today’s gig. That meant that the photographer had to go through the 15 lenses in almost as many lens mounts extremely fast so these are not master shots, but snapshots shot at an incredible speed 🥵
That said there is one unsharp bokeh photo, one vertical body shot and one up close with each lens - so only 3 photos with each lens. Some of the photos are a little out of focus but you get the idea how they render differently. All were shot wide open on Leica SL2 at ISO 800 and imported in CaptureOne. It’s so nice to see that some of the old lenses do such a fantastic job on a modern 47 megapixels sensor.
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Lens/bokeh test of 40-110 year old lenses - April 2026