[Leica] 7 Artisans 50mm F1.1 Lens

[Lluis Ripoll]

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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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