Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kwite rite. Macho americano? Macha americana? Bruce. On 24-mrt-2009, at 20:59, bob palmieri wrote: > Folks - > > After looking at George Lottermoser's wildlife shot on his blog I > figured I'd post a couple of Humans from last week. In contrast to > the birds, I don't feel like color is particularly necessary for > determining gender: > > Guy - > > http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/110451982 > > Girl - > > http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/110451983 > > (Feel free to deliver comments, admonishments or jocular banter as > needed.) > > Both shot with my daily M6 - 50 'Lux - Tmax 400 in Xtol rig. Used > to be pretty happy with this setup, but there seems to be an issue > that I can no longer ignore. > > I threw these up a few days ago and noticed that the "Girl" shot > gets twice as many views as the "Guy" shot. Must be the 50 (late > spherical) 'lux's Lemon Bokeh, which is all over the "Guy" shot. > > First of all, I'd like to know what causes this. Is it a comatic > effect, an image of the aperture off-axis or something else? I > guess it doesn't really matter too much, 'cuz it's clearly Here to > Stay with this lens design. > > I hesitate to bring up a topic such as this, but I'm really > interested in hearing some opinions on Fast Fiftys for M's. > > I basically like almost everything about my late-spherical 50 > version. These aspects include close focussing to 0.7m, terrific > ergonomics on the very-lightly-damped rings (with the fast-racking > helical on the focus ring I can beat most autofocus setups in dim > light.) I wanna know if there's a 1.4 (or 1.5) 50 that can keep up > with most of these qualities (as well as high contrast and low > flare wide open plus acceptable focus shift ). > > The Nocti's are out due to weight and cost. The versions of the > Leica aspherical I've tried had much stiffer focussing (and I > probably can't afford one of those either.) So I guess it's all > about Zeiss (new or old), Voigtlander and Canon or Nikon LTM's. > > But if I can't find something else I may well become a member of > the Bokeh-After-the Fact club. > > Bob Palmieri > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information