[Leica] 7 Artisans 50mm F1.1 Lens

[roark.paul at gmail.com (Paul Roark)]

?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..
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I shot wide open. why else buy this lens?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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..
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> Next thing to try out is the 7 Artisans against my Nocti.
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> Maybe this week...
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> BTW, the Techart Leica M to Sony A7II (and other) AF adapter worked real
> well..   That was a real win.
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> Frank Filippone
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> Red735i at verizon.net
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