Samuli...very nice images! Very different than your forest shots!
Helena...love the First BW. And I like the BW better than the color.
Ronny...I thought you said you sold all your Nikon glass?? excellent shots, as always!
Sean...nice portrait with the Lux ASPH! And I like the crowd pic with the CV 15 lll
Thebratts...excellent Mandler bokeh with the 90!
Gregg
On that chart it's type 4. Supposedly, excepting the APO, from 1979 to 13, all optics are the same design. Very tiny lens, with tab, can be found around 1100USD or even less
here you can see it on the left: Aluxy by unoh7, on Flickr
In terms of photographs, this has to be the most influential Mandler design of all, and really, his most famous lens. Many considered it the best 50 ever made till the 50 Lux appeared (which I someday may own). If there is any Mandler "look" you would need to sart with this one. It's good WO, better bokeh than any Zeiss RF lens except the 85/2, and it is pulling a modern colorset, like the 28 cron, but just a bit more muted.
It was already very good on the stock A7, but the A7.mod really loves it: editing last night and very impressed at the rez where I hit the focus. I'm walking around for these with M9 and 28 cron, then A7.mod and 50 cron. Sometimes I put the Lux on there and I should swap the 28 for a day, because now it shoots that well too.
First shots with the camera: I like the quality of the grain up to ISO 51200, hyperfocal with the 15/4,5 M39 day and nigth is now possible. RAW file ligth and malleable, silent shutter is completely silent.
Would be nice to read exif data of your shots so that we could see what the iso settings were
Seattle waterfront - not shown is the massive amount of construction behind the waterfront, where they are trying to dig a new road tunnel and building a new seawall.
A7.mod + Leica M 35/1.4 FLE (1,2) and Leica M 135/4 Elmar (3,4,5)
Fun little walk in the park. Mostly unremarkable, but for two things: This goes that kept following my son and I, and looking straight at me. Followed us for close to 300 yards, walking and swimming. And then it looked straight at us. Weird bird. Secondly, a Cackling goose! Not a Canada goose, but a Cackling goose. All shot with the cheap as chips Minolta 100-300 APO.
Cackling goose - you can tell by the shorter beak and shorter neck.
Looking at us very intently
Some pretty flowering tree. Spring is coming to Colorado
at the playground part 2- a7 - Leica 90 E55
Really starting to like this lens!
I did not expect it to be as sharp as it is wide open.
And it draws just as beautifully as i expected.
BTW: in these series, my second son Todd 16 months.
I'm still being blown away by the stuff in this thread. I'm trying to figure out what to do about my next lens purchase. I've got the 28-70 kit, G45 and G90 and a few mix low end primes. It's actually hard to fault the kit lens for most stuff.
G45. Love the 3D look of this thing. But I'm considering replacing it with the 55F1.8.
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But the little kit lens can surprise you. I don't see a big advantage besides speed to the 24-70..
Honestly, I've been getting annoyed with the distortion on the 24-70. Is the kit lens better in keeping horizons straight?
I've found after shooting some seascapes yesterday that even the LR lens profile for the 24-70 doesn't do enough to correct my horizons. Spent way too much time trying to manually correct it and finally gave up...
I haven't shot with it enough to check;-) I've done 99% of my shooting with my primes. I brought out the 28-70 today just to see what it would do. I think the 24-70 is off my radar. I'm actually considering the 24-240 as my next lens, I've never been a fan of all-in-ones but it would be nice on my upcoming vacation and I usually use primes for 'serious' stuff. As rarely as I use a zoom I figure get one that will be most useful.
excellent shots, as always!
Wow, I am lusting after the new CV 15, which I think would be seriously sick on the M9. Looks just great in your shot.
