[wiseguy010 wrote:
Personally I prefer the original colours. For myself I noticed that there is much less need to change the colours when using the Otus than with other lenses. Most of the time the colours are very good and accurate straight out of the camera. Initially I changed colours quite often in pictures made with the Otus (I suppose because that was my normal routine), but when I looked them back later I noticed that it was not an improvement and I changed it back again.
Hi,
There is something I don't fully understand here. What do you mean with "straight out of the camera"?
We all use a raw converter. I use Lightroom/Camera raw. For every camera I've used there is a camera profile. Sometimes I make my own. Thus, when shooting raw, a camera profile is applied to the converted image (or somewhere during the conversion). Straight out of camera doesn't seem possible to me. Perhaps you can elaborate a little?
OK. But what do we have then? A camera, lenses and a raw converter. The colours from this camera and all the lenses the colours are off. With the Otus 55/1.4 suddenly all the colours are correct (or to the photographers taste).
That sounds a bit odd to me. I have several times made separate custom colour profiles for a camera and used these dedicated profiles for each image taken with the camera-lens combo. The colour differences have been very small though and by time I have ended up with this routine except for some very old and odd lenses (radioactive yellow for example, an old modified cine lens is another example).
What wiseguy got is a profile suitable for the Otus but unsuitable for all the other lenses. I assume the other lenses are relatively modern (what camera, lenses and software?)? If so I can't help to think the Otus colours are so odd that it is in need of its own profile.
But, I would rather guess the photographer simply appreciate the performance of an APO lens. I don't recall anyone else having posted about the need of a special profile for the Otus.
Got my lens today and hopefully this is a user error question/problem...
Attached to either my D810 or D7100 I am getting a blinking F/EE unless I have it dialed all the way to the left in the F/16 aperture position... at which point the camera recognizes it as F/1.4 and will allow me to take a photo.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
edit: I figured it out. (Homer Simpson Duh!, slaps forehead...)
re-edit: Now I am trying to figure out the focus confirmation. No red glow focus point when focus hit? I have been looking for the link to the video someone posted about focusing tips with this lens. Should have bookmarked it...lol
No red glow focus point. No beep. You have to rely on the green dot in the bottom of the view finder. This is my only complaint about the ZF.2 version of this lens.
sxgva wrote:
No red glow focus point. No beep. You have to rely on the green dot in the bottom of the view finder. This is my only complaint about the ZF.2 version of this lens.
Hmm, if I remember correctly, my old ZF.2 lenses beep when in focus. You need to activate that function on your camera though (mine is D4).
eth3rton wrote:
Got my lens today and hopefully this is a user error question/problem...
Attached to either my D810 or D7100 I am getting a blinking F/EE unless I have it dialed all the way to the left in the F/16 aperture position... at which point the camera recognizes it as F/1.4 and will allow me to take a photo.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
edit: I figured it out. (Homer Simpson Duh!, slaps forehead...)
re-edit: Now I am trying to figure out the focus confirmation. No red glow focus point when focus hit? I have been looking for the link to the video someone posted about focusing tips with this lens. Should have bookmarked it...lol...Show more →
This is normal behaviour. You can override this by telling the camera that you want to use the aperture ring of the lens instead of the wheel on front of the camera. This is what I found:
You can use the physical aperture ring on CPU lenses to set aperture, if you change the setting f9 > Aperture Setting to "Aperture ring" instead of "Sub-command dial".
Oops, now I see your edit. Well, I just keep this post.
sxgva wrote:
No red glow focus point. No beep. You have to rely on the green dot in the bottom of the view finder. This is my only complaint about the ZF.2 version of this lens.
You will very soon notice that the green dot is not reliable for your Otus. It keeps burning for quite some time when turning the focus ring. The optimal sharpness is then somewhere in the middle. Practice and you will learn.
wiseguy010 wrote:
You will very soon notice that the green dot is not reliable for your Otus. It keeps burning for quite some time when turning the focus ring. The optimal sharpness is then somewhere in the middle. Practice and you will learn.
Agreed. I noticed that too, especially when using f1.4, due to the shallow DOF. All such confirmation is nothing more than an aid.
clmusic wrote:
Hmm, if I remember correctly, my old ZF.2 lenses beep when in focus. You need to activate that function on your camera though (mine is D4).
I use it on 800e and it won't beep. I did activate the beep in camera. Contacted Zeiss about this and the guy I talked to didn't even know there was a keep on/off setting. Oh well.. I just have to keep moving my eye between the green dot and the focus point. It's such a great lens that it's worth the trouble.
I have all ZE lenses and they all beep and show the red glow focus point on my canon cameras. It has to do with the chip on the lens. Guess a lot of Nikon users don't care for the beep.
From last season's Vintage Base Ball in East TN. We rode the steam train to the ca. 1797 Ramsey House, out in the country and the perfect place for two games under 1864 rules. I was fairly new to the Otus then, so the bumpy train ride presented it's special challenges. Of the four teams, our Knoxville Holstons had the brightest, most reflective uniforms, so that's tough to photograph, too.
freaklikeme wrote:
I hope this doesn't mean you're giving up the Leica S, Michael. I love the stuff you've been posting in the MF thread.
Brad, No such a plan yet! I will keep the S. I personally also like S very much. The rendering and color combination is hard to achieve with other system. AF certainly is a plus sometime. The huge OVF is also big for me. It seems there were lots of changes in my gears, I am in process to finding stuff suit me the most. My taste on lens is involving over times.
Seems funny that everyone chasing smaller size stuff and I am going the other way getting stuff bigger and bigger But I do enjoy the ending results and whole process much more... It is very personal.
I love this 55 lens very much based on results I see so far, so much so that I want that 85, which should be even slightly better technically. This is the best technical 50mm lens, and I feel 50lux ASPH M is still the best lens for its perfect balance between size, rendering and sharpness but have to say OTUS is simply better in many way if use it wisely.
try at least a image, it showcase many specialty about this lens....
f1.4
sebboh wrote:
looks spectacular michael, but i miss your R lux shots.
Derek, I must admit I am in a loop myself. I know what you mean
Perfect lens might not given perfect desired image, I need go through this myself at least once to figure out what I want.
Philip, Congratulation to you! post more to keep this thread alive.
For myself I noticed that there is much less need to change the colours when using the Otus than with other lenses. Most of the time the colours are very good and accurate straight out of the camera. Initially I changed colours quite often in pictures made with the Otus (I suppose because that was my normal routine), but when I looked them back later I noticed that it was not an improvement and I changed it back again. 
But I do enjoy the ending results and whole process much more... It is very personal.
