Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excellent image Paul! Lluis > El 4 gen 2018, a les 20:46, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> va escriure: > > ?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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information