I am seriously considering purchasing the Nocton 40/1.2. However, I shoot with the A6600 APS-C camera and have not been able to find any sample photos with an APS-C sensor. I liked the FL when I shot with the Konika Hexanon 40/1.8 many years ago
jowul wrote:
I am seriously considering purchasing the Nocton 40/1.2. However, I shoot with the A6600 APS-C camera and have not been able to find any sample photos with an APS-C sensor. I liked the FL when I shot with the Konika Hexanon 40/1.8 many years ago
Been considering that myself, but on a Fujifilm and the M-mount version...
Just recevied my copy, finally owner of this legendary lens. Will try it first time this weekend. Next step is consider if I keep the Batis 40 with the 35 GM about the enter my line-up.. The CV looks great on both my A7RM4 and A7M3. It much more compact than I thougt. Went with the SE-version.
Finally decided to purchase this lens after lurking on this thread for so long. Will post pictures soon!
In the meantime, can somebody explain to me why I hear some conflicting thoughts about sharpness at f/1.2? Of course, I've decided to go for this lens due to its rendering, microcontrast, and characteristic 3D-pop, but for practical purposes, do you guys stop down to around f/2.0 for most images? I've seen some f/1.2 images, and they seem to be tack sharp at 1:1 crop. Why is this the case when others (e.g. Dustin Abbot) seem to say it's a really soft lens wide open?
Thanks! Looking forward to trying this lens out finally
steven-sonyman wrote:
Finally decided to purchase this lens after lurking on this thread for so long. Will post pictures soon!
In the meantime, can somebody explain to me why I hear some conflicting thoughts about sharpness at f/1.2? Of course, I've decided to go for this lens due to its rendering, microcontrast, and characteristic 3D-pop, but for practical purposes, do you guys stop down to around f/2.0 for most images? I've seen some f/1.2 images, and they seem to be tack sharp at 1:1 crop. Why is this the case when others (e.g. Dustin Abbot) seem to say it's a really soft lens wide open?
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It only loses some sharpness at f1.2 when you are close to your subject. At normal portrait distances, its pretty darn sharp wide open. At least in my experience.
mudlake wrote:
It only loses some sharpness at f1.2 when you are close to your subject. At normal portrait distances, its pretty darn sharp wide open. At least in my experience.
Interesting! That'll be great then, since I shoot a lot of portraits Thanks for the tip.
I thought it would be interesting to test out this lens with a very light mist filter to soften highlight transitions and somewhat bloom bright light sources and illuminated edges. I haven’t had much chance to test this outdoors (in the middle of a snowstorm right now) but I did a quick and dirty test with a floor lamp to show the difference. Sometimes the harsh rendering of bright lights and edges can have a clinical “digital” look that I’m not terribly fond of, so I’m testing this out to see if it gets me results closer to what I prefer. So far so good! Image quality appears to be just fine on a lower resolution sensor, and image contrast is mostly maintained.
Just a few images from the past few months. Last picture from today. I started getting bad EXIF data on my walk tonight. Reads f22 at any aperture if focus distance is > .8m. Tried cleaning lens contacts and camera contacts but will try again tomorrow, think I'm gonna have to take it in.
