Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Link please :-) (too much malt liquor? :-) ) On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > After reading the test today on Luminous Landscape, I felt the urge to test > my 5Dii and my M8 with Teddy and an apple. I moved back from 35mm to test > the 50mm, and moved back a bit more to test the 85mm. It was after work, > and > I drank a few delicious Bowmore single malts along the way, so I deleted a > couple of candidate shots, but here you go. The M8 was set to ISO 640 and > the 5Dii to the equivalent (ISO 800). Lighting was flourescent and dim. > M8 shots got Lightroom 'portrait' sharpening' and the 5Dii shots got > 'landscape' sharpening. Tops and bottoms were cropped to give a square. > > To my eyes, the 35 Cron Asph and the 85 1.2 came out equal tops, with > qualities of the others appreciated. What do you think? I also confirmed > that I really need to get my 35 Nokton's front focus shift fixed, as it is > frustrating, but I have no idea where. Stephen Gandy and Robert White's in > London could not advise anyone. For the Nokton, I focused, and then > twinked > the focus a little further. The CV Nokt @ 1.2 and the Pentax @ 1.2 were > unusable, I think because I was tipsy by then. So I didn't post them. > > All comments will be pondered gratefully! > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]