Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's just a test shot of the canyon behind my house, but (particularly with fall colors and some bare trees) it makes a very good test range. I've never had an f/1.2 that could come close to the across-the-board landscape usability criteria I'm looking for. This one seems to do it. It was after sunset, so the 800 ISO I used is at least as limiting as the wide open lens. (I limit the ISO range of the Sony. After a while you're probably better off doing the amplification at home.) The image has been sharpened, of course, but the signal-to-noise ratio holding up across the field is going to allow me to explore lower light levels on the fly, hand-held which I'm looking forward to. Paul www.PaulRoark.com On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Lluis Ripoll < lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >