I can see you're really enjoying the 40/1.2 Nokton!
If you want to tame the axial CA in your images, here's a Lightroom preset I created for myself. Whenever I shoot with the 40/1.2, I apply this first and it knocks out most of the magenta/green fringing right away:
thanks so much, I'll give it a try, and yes I love everything about this lens - size (compared to the new 35 nocti) and the 3D separation effect shooting wide open. I'm not able to discuss shapes/outlining of bokeh balls and technical details like that, I just say that the rendering pleases me.
I can see you're really enjoying the 40/1.2 Nokton!
If you want to tame the axial CA in your images, here's a Lightroom preset I created for myself. Whenever I shoot with the 40/1.2, I apply this first and it knocks out most of the magenta/green fringing right away:
got it thanks. Here a screenshot showing that I opened library AFTER my account name. Hopefully this is correct.
So when I open an image in camera raw, will this preset automatically load, or do I need to navigate to that preset in my list of presets and enable it? FYI, I'm an ACR guy, never got around to using LR.
brick33308 wrote:
got it thanks. Here a screenshot showing that I opened library AFTER my account name. Hopefully this is correct.
So when I open an image in camera raw, will this preset automatically load, or do I need to navigate to that preset in my list of presets and enable it? FYI, I'm an ACR guy, never got around to using LR.
Great, looks like it's installed correctly.
If you don't use Lightroom, no problem at all. You can access the User Presets directly in Adobe Camera Raw (through Bridge or Photoshop). Once ACR is open with your image, click the Presets icon on the right panel...it looks like two overlapping circles. Then go to "User Presets", and you should see the "CV 40mm f/1.2 LOCA" preset there. Just click it, and it will take care of the LOCA (longitudinal chromatic aberration)..in other words, you should see way less purple/magenta/green fringing in your 40/1.2 Nokton images.
Fred Miranda wrote:
Great, looks like it's installed correctly.
If you don't use Lightroom, no problem at all. You can access the User Presets directly in Adobe Camera Raw (through Bridge or Photoshop). Once ACR is open with your image, click the Presets icon on the right panel...it looks like two overlapping circles. Then go to "User Presets", and you should see the "CV 40mm f/1.2 LOCA" preset there. Just click it, and it will take care of the LOCA (longitudinal chromatic aberration)..in other words, you should see way less purple/magenta/green fringing in your 40/1.2 Nokton images.
perfect, again thanks. I'm in the mood to shoot monochrome, so I'm putting the Voigt 40/1.2 on my M11M and heading out. Do I understand correctly that LOCA isn't an issue on monochrome?
It's actually a nice picture. Unfortunately, the focus is on the trouser seam in the foreground, I'd say. Did you not use the eye focus field of the Zf, or was it just that far off?
Focused on the eye on the previous photo but might have missed a bit. I took several and all were in focus on the eye. Here is another at same aperture-
Beautiful photos--both of them. Love the 'dreamy' look!! Do you have something similar but at f/1.2? I just got the A7V and I am looking for an f/1.2 lens. Thanks very much!
Thanks! This is becoming my favorite lens. I don’t have anything to share at f/1.2 but I will try to take some wide open to share.
jojib wrote:
Beautiful photos--both of them. Love the 'dreamy' look!! Do you have something similar but at f/1.2? I just got the A7V and I am looking for an f/1.2 lens. Thanks very much!
but now that I've got the 40/1.2, I don't see a reason to keep it so I'll sell it.
Would you be surprised to know that the CV 40/1.4 Nokton's optical design is largely inspired by the Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux pre-asph, which also includes your Steel Rim reissue? Both use a 7-element double-Gauss layout, but the Voigtlander corrects spherical aberration slightly better, resulting in less glow wide open.
Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux (pre-asph, including steel rim reissue)
