[Leica] (tech) You get what you pay for ;-)

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Appears to be an excellent tool for such work; flowers macro.
I'm envious. All I've had I this focal lengh are 1.8's. Its a big diff.
I do like the shots much more which have sharp foregrounds. It's much better
to focus on what comes first even if it isn't your favorite or most
interesting part of the picture. As to wade through a soft foreground (your
eye will always go there first) to then finally see your sharp bud in the
middle is less ideal. This particular mistake is made by the vast majority
of jpegs I've seen posted to the LUG over a decade except from the very top
people. Yet it is very basic first week in any photo class stuff.
And Its also much easier to do with a manual focus lens as the 80 Summilux
is of course.
Things in the background going soft they eye rarely has a problem with after
its seen what it looks at first usually at the bottom of the picture.
And believe me I'm ready for people here to start saying I made this up
yesterday.
And there are exceptions.
Birds and bugs and so one. They need to be sharp. A fuzzy branch in a
foreground not the end of the world.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:13:54 +0200 (CEST)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] (tech) You get what you pay for ;-)
> 
> Thanks John,


I had seen these two superb photos - and probably commented -
> but hadn't paid attention to the gear involved or  must have thought it was
> the M9.


Ph




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http://johnmcmaster.com/PESO/Flowers/flowers2012/content/_DSC0020_large.
> html is D800E with 80mm
> Summilux

john
________________________________________


thanks for this
> interesting comparison


Anyone tried a summilux R on the
> D800E?
TIA
Ph





Just did some quick tests for a friend:

35mm at infinity


> Leica M9, 35mm Summilux asph FLE at f2.0 and f5.6

   Nikon D800E, Zeiss ZF.2
> 35mm f2.0 at f2.0 and f5.6

   The Leica at f2.0 is comparable to the Zeiss at
> f5.6

50mm at ~1.4m

   Leica M9, Noctilux f1.0 at f1.0

   Nikon D800E,
> Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS at f1.2

   Looks like the Nikon 50mm back focused a
> little (was done by
viewfinder rather than liveview), but the Noctilux
> sharpness and bokeh is
far superior.

The Nikon images are quite yellow
> compared to Leica and the Nikon tends to
overexpose, I know to put it 1/3 to
> 2/3 under what it says but they are
still a bit
> bright.

john


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