Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Klein writes: > No apology needed, Steve. And that's one beautiful gir... er, > picture. However, I'm not sure your shot illustrates the Summilux' > superiority over the Nokton. Your picture is a finished Web jpeg. What I > posted were unaltered Vuescan scans with no curves or sharpening > adjustments. Your picture had plenty of curves without adjustment. :-) Thanks Peter -- I am not very good on technical details or evaluating pictures, so here is the tech stuff on that picture: shot with Delta 400 and 50/1.4 at f1.4 and 500th at a distance of about 8 feet. Taken at about 7pm (magic hour). 8x10 print scanned on cheapie flatbed, minor tweak in curves and sharpen, about a 10% crop. That is about it. best, sl > > Your subject also had a lot higher natural contrast than mine--dark hair, > dark eyes and dark red lipstick, vs. greying blonde hair, blue eyes and no > lipstick. We also don't know your shutter speed, what film, how close you > were or how much cropping you did. I was about 4 feet away. Marianne was > taken at 1/60, and Susan at 1/30. Are you sure yours was a wide open shot? > There looks to be too much depth of field if your picture is indeed full frame. > > Anyway, yours is a much more striking picture. But there's too many > variables for us to know what is attributable to your lens vs. mine. > > I posted the unaltered Vuescans so we would be comparing apples to > apples. If I had a Summilux, I would love to do a similar same-subject > shootout to see how they really compare. > > I've worked up the sharper Nokton shot of Susan, with curves adjustment and > some unsharp mask, so Susan's head Here > 'tis: http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/susan2.jpg > > Anyway, a used Nokton came my way at a decent price. Since the Nokton is a > modern design and much less expensive than the 1960s-design Summilux, I > decided I owed it to myself to to try the Nokton first. This test is just > a first impression--I'm not going to know whether I really like it until > I've got a number of rolls of film through it. > > One thing I'm sure of--I'm keeping my 50 Summicron. The fast lens is for > when I need "low gear." > > --Peter > > B.D. said: >> > Well, ain't that a hoot! Summilux! Summicron! Summaron! Leica! Leica! >> Leica! >> > And both shots were taken with Japanese glass - one a 50-year-old design, >> > the other a modern lens which sells for $489 NEW at B&H. > > Steve said: > >>PULEEZZ, I really hate to see you keep making a fool out of yourself with >>your constant anti-Leica stance. This Summilux 50/1.4 shot at f1.4 blows >>away Peter's Nikkor and Cosina lenses by any measure you can think of: >> >>http://www.streetphoto.net/images/im120.jpg >> >>With apologies to Peter, who takes very good pictures. >> >>sl > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html