[Leica] You can buy the Noctilux 50 1.2 on *bay...

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

The unsharpened images, Hoppy, are the first two - which, though the depth
of field is miniscule, are sharp and don't to be look as though the shot was
taken with older, uncoated glass - though the wedding shots, in lower light,
at lower shutter speeds and higher iso, indeed do.


On 8/24/06 8:55 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> B.D. no informed comment to make on the Noctilux.
> Regarding the Zuiko, I can certainly see, in the wedding shots, what Don 
> has
> described as the "glow". Disregarding the miniscule DOF, which I could 
> never
> master with 1.4's let alone bigger, the shots, as displayed, look to me in
> effect, like older uncoated glass and not at all like a relatively modern
> era Japanese SLR lens (70's or 80's Zuiko, Nikkor, Canon etc)
> 
> It may well be some combination of lower light levels and quality, slower
> speeds, DOF, influencing the shots. Or also personal interpretation on
> appropriate sharpening for the subjects.
> That's not a value judgement, in fact for some of the wedding shots, I'm
> sure that folks would be very pleased to see just what you have shown.
> I don't see any unevenness suggesting any issue with the particular glass
> sample. No shortage of resolution in those last posted pics either. It
> always reminds me of medium format film (abetted by the absence of grain in
> the digital image. Plus of course the "glow" isn't apparent at all to me in
> many other photos that you have posted recently.
> Just my perception based on the low res versions on a computer screen.
> I do understand that you haven't applied any processing, including
> sharpening
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> Learning constantly
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> B.
> D. Colen
> Sent: Friday, 25 August 2006 09:54
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> Subject: [Leica] You can buy the Noctilux 50 1.2 on *bay...
> 
> For the buy-it-now price north of $5K -
> Or you can buy an Olympilux 55 1.2 for the buy-it-now price of....$355...
> And don't tell me it isn't sharp, Don. :-)
> Here's another example - and the second image is a crop at 100  percent.
> These are raw images, converted to black and white, with no in-camera or
> post-camera sharpening.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BDColen/OlympiLux2_14
> 
> 
> 
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