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Leica Lens Compendium

Leica Lens Compendium
By Erwin Puts

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Erwin Puts has for many years both used and tested lenses. He discusses the Leica camera lenses manufactured over the years and explains their capabilities and suitability for different applications, whether you wish to take family photographs or specialist photographs. This Compendium also covers the new lenses announced at Photokina. The lenses are described in detail, with many color illustrations, photographs, drawings and tables, including test data.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #697735 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-11-24
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 240 pages

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Leica Lens Compendium5
Amazing amount of info on the history and design of the world class Leica lenses dating back to the beginning. Puts is the maaster of the Leica!

Leica Lens book3
A book where you see that a lot of effort and time has been put in. But I was a bit suprized when I looked first in it, I could not see any sample pictures of the Lenses. At least the most recent and most sold lenses should have them. No comments where be added on the lenses by the autor. In generell I find it personal very pur of information.

More Than You'll Ever Want to Know About Lenses3
I bought this book shortly after buying my first Leica camera (an M6) and lens (a 50mm Summicron). Frankly, I'm not sure what ever possessed my to buy it.

Be that as it may, I actually enjoyed reading it. I'll never design a lens and understanding what's written here isn't going to help me improve as a photographer.

However, I found it interesting to learn how lenses are designed and manufactured. From the early days of ray tracing using a pencil and paper to today's computer-aided optimization, Puts' explanations of optical theory are very understandable. I found this surprising, as English is obviously not his first language.

I've visited Puts' website and found him to be less than inspiring as a photographer. Frankly, he'd probably starve based on his photographic talent.

On the other hand, he's an accomplished and knowledgable technical writer. His reviews of what seems to be every model and variation of Leica lens ever made are informative. Whether it makes any difference that one lens resolves 90 lpmm and another 95 lpmm is something else again.

I can't recommend this book to anyone who isn't a real Leica fanatic. However, if you live Leica and are interested in reading every bit of information about its products, this book should be in your library.