Ed, I agree their service is always good. But is it the way luxury brand should be? Just like Lexus, Audi service is way different than Toyota here
Before sleep, I will upload another batch of 50lux photo. I start miss it more no matter what, 50lux is very consistent performer under all condition, all aperture, well, if you can make it focus well. (now, I believe it is the FLE cause its drift over the time. it is a complicated movement both way when focusing, so mechanic requirement must be high)
I feel it give similar to embedded results, but vastly different than LR default setting, especially in green, blue, purple hue and saturation.
From there, I do individual tweak for contrast, color hue, saturation slider, usually less than several mins tweak max,(the more experience working on M9's file, the less time needed. ) and the images change with my mood. That is why I like raw so much, many time, I found the pic have a brand new life with my skill improved or I get some inspiration somewhere.
I also add some grain recently for no Landscape stuff, (15-25; 25-35; 50 in LR setting) as it feel less perfect/clean/digital to me, especially view 100%. I am not that technical orientated in photography, wouldn't mind the images not as sharp, color not as real, DR not as big etc as long as images are interesting to me.
Hope it helps one way or the other
BTW, that two kitten shot also is my favorite from your set. Their eyes, scary, sad, curious, tell me story
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Thank you very much Zhangyue for the detailed explanation of your PP. Wow, that's a lot of stuff to digest. Mine is very simple, only wb and contrast.
My results might be even worse than default It is almost a habit to do individually suit my taste or theme of photo I thought. Many times, m9's output is too much for portrait to my taste.
Ron, another excellent set of Fort Erie. Pic #3 and the view across the river shot are my favorites from this set. Yes, we can never have enough 50mm lenses, but more like we can never have enough of M and LTM mount lenses of any focal range? I should have picked up some of those vintage lenses before Steve Huff and Ashwin published their findings. I also like the 50Lux pre ASPH. I might try the E43 version at some point, also for the same reason as you, given the rendering of the Nocti 1.0 and 75Lux at a lower cost. Have you considered any of the Russian lenses, especially the Jupiter 3 which is a copy of the pre-war Zeiss 50 1.5 Sonnar?
Gary, looking forward to your shots with the Canon 50 1.4 ltm and M240. If I can find a good copy at a reasonable price, I will probably want to give it a try as well. The bokeh seems quite smooth from the samples I've seen posted on the internet.
Michael, nice shot of the leaves with the 50Lux ASPH. The second shot with the girl and dog is superb. Absence makes the heart grow fonder?
Edward, excellent sunset scene and superb contrast with the ferris wheel and the buildings. Sigh, I think I need to put some $$ down for a ZM50P soon. Not sure if I should get a ZM50P or a 50Cron rigid first.
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I don't think the nokton will work as well in color. I checked many online samples and was not really convinced. The focus shift made me resell the C Sonnar after less than a month of ownership, but when I buy the M10, things might change
Edward, I'll post some shots in color when my M240 returns from Solms and let you know. Actually, the M240 and live view is also partly the reason to risk trying out the 50 1.1 with its known focus shift issues. I did some test last night on a tripod and back focus on my copy starts at f/2 and requires f/8 to catch up, ie. f/2 to f/5.6 is pretty useless with RF focusing unless you guestimate manually. On my copy, backfocus is already 3-4 inches at f/2 and it also varies depending on actual focal distance due to spherical aberrations. Resolution at f/1.1 is decent but has very low contrast and need to be careful not to overexpose, else glow (SA) will overwhelm the image. Both resolution and contrast increase significantly at f/1.4. Also I noticed that the out of focus background becomes busy in bright daylight shots but is somewhat smoother in lower or less contrasty lighting. Again, could be SA and other aberrations?
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A few more with the CV 50 1.1 @ f/1.1 I think those who buy this lens expecting shallow DOF similar to the Nocti will be disappointed. The out of focus rendering on the CV 50 1.1 is not as shallow and the depth seems to be more like a f/1.4 or f/2 lens at times. But it is a true f/1.1 lens, at least in the image center which makes it worthwhile for low light situations. Using this lens makes me appreciate the Noctis even more.
I've bee nso busy with work lately I haven't been stopping in but man when I do these are tons of new images. Great stuff Phil, Edward, Joe and everyone. So inspiring one and all.
Its the noise from the MM at 6400 iso and its a nursing student that was at a graduation I was shooting for a one on my university clients. I photographed her a while back for some ads and an annual report.
Heres the shot for that. Not shot with Leica but 5DII and 200 2L.
Phil, superb set, medium format rendering on those shots! Toning also works well. #1 & 2 on the first set and second set #4 of the bike are really excellent.
Allen, nice one from the graduation. The 200L portrait also looks good!
I should have picked up some of those vintage lenses before Steve Huff and Ashwin published their findings. I also like the 50Lux pre ASPH. I might try the E43 version at some point, also for the same reason as you, given the rendering of the Nocti 1.0 and 75Lux at a lower cost. Have you considered any of the Russian lenses, especially the Jupiter 3 which is a copy of the pre-war Zeiss 50 1.5 Sonnar?
