Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I really did want to give the folks an unadulterated image to show what sort of raw material this lens produces. Certainly, it is not the same quality as a 35/1.4 Summilux, but keep in mind that you can buy 6 of the 35/1.4 Noktons for the price of one Summilux, and still have money left over to buy lens hoods. As for the bokeh, I think that trying to juggle nice bokeh with sharpness and lack of aberrations can be a compromise situation. I find the bokeh on the new Nokton to be acceptable for the most part, better than average. Jeffery On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > http://www.400tx.com/nokton1.html > > http://www.400tx.com/nokton2.html > > > > It's a very nice lens. Nice contrast and sharpness wide open. > > > I'd like to know what book that is she's reading on the printer. > Looks like a page turner. > No put downer. > > > The shot to me needs some contrast. > > The color version to me is not a color version. > Its a highly desaturated color version. > > > And I don't think its so good to throw up a completely unsharpened image. > > To me sharpening an image is such an important part of image making in the > digital realm that do not do so at all tells doesn't tell us much about > what > we're looking at. An unsharpened shot looks WAY out of focus. You can even > tell at these low rezes. > Put us in the ballpark and give us some slight sharpening so we can tell > what the heck is going on! > > It really is very dull looking on my screen like you never even saw the > histogram and tweaked it. Some of those grays need to separate. > > I bet its a thriller! (the book) > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, LA