Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]?I've worked up my first landscape test shot taken at f/1.2? by the new Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 for the Sony a7rii. Wide open it is somewhat soft across the frame. However it looks like it sharpens well enough in Photoshop that I think I'll be able to use it for gallery quality 20x24 inch B&W display prints on either matte paper or canvas. By f/2.8 it's excellent. So far there is no profile for it in my Photoshop CC, but it doesn't seem to need one. What's on my home page now is my first a stacked image of hand held f/1.2 frames at different distances from the foreground to the sharp ridge I look at over a little canyon. See http://www.paulroark.com/ I've had older Canon f/1.2 optics and never kept them. This Nokton, however, looks like it's made the grade for a spot in my lineup for travel and hiking: Loxia 21, Nokton 40, Leica-M Macro-Elmar 90. Paul www.PaulRoark.com On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > I bought one of these from Amazon last year ($369). Only over Christmas > did > I get to really try it out.. > > > > I own a Noctilux, 3rd version. Not the new F0.95 version, but the 1.0 > version. I thought that maybe I could buy this cheapie, and sell off the > Nocti.. Put several thousand dollars back into the coffers... > > I also own a 50mm F1.4 Summilux ASPH, the sharpest lens I have ever run > across. > > My Monochrom is back from its stay in Allendale.. So it was the right time > to try the lens on the Monochrom body and run it against the Summilux. > > > > The focus seems right on. There is the possibility to adjust the RF cam, > but I did not have to do the adjustment, everything worked just fine. > > > > I shot wide open. why else buy this lens? > > > > There is a creamy edge to all of the images taken, from F1.1 to about F2.8 > After that, the creaminess disappears. It is a pleasant effect. Soft > renditions of an earlier time and place. But if you think this is in the > less well focused areas, you are wrong. It is creamy all over. Focused > areas or not... May will love this for portraiture. Maybe for some > landscapes. > > > > But it you LOVE sharpness, and pursue tit with lenses like the 50 ASPH Lux, > this lens is so different it takes some time to comprehend. I am not there > yet. > > > > Do I like what I shot? Depends, as a shot of my Son worked out real well. > But a shot of my future DIL was way more interesting ( technically?) but it > showed every pore on her face... The shot of her with the 7 artisans, was > much smoother. Of course, it also means there was nothing sharp. So I > like > everything smooth or everything sharp? > > Not so sure yet.. > > > > Next thing to try out is the 7 Artisans against my Nocti. > > > > Maybe this week... > > > > BTW, the Techart Leica M to Sony A7II (and other) AF adapter worked real > well.. That was a real win. > > > > Frank Filippone > > > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >