Cross posted from Nikon Zf image thread, as I just jumped to Nikon wagon. Got the silver Zf. Oh man it's pretty. And fun.
Of course the first lens had to be my favourite lens of all time - Nokton 40mm f/1.2. My "if I had to choose only one lens for the rest of my life" lens. I've shot with different versions of it over the years. First VM version adapted to Fuji, then adapted to Sony A7III. Then native mount for Sony and finally switched to SE version for Sony. Was my main lens for about five years. Once I switched to all-Fuji for a while, it was the single lens I missed over all. I tried different Fuji native Voigt's (not the 35/0.9 though), but they just didn't do it for me. So it was time to get the 40mm Nokton again. And I'm really loving the manual focus aids in Zf. (Main reason I got this camera.)
Last evening I went to shoot some stars with my daughter, but nature had it's own idea of an amazing show. Haven't see this amazing auroras even in Lapland. This was only 1.7km from our home, by the still frozen lake Vitträsk in Southern Finland. I've just switched from Fuji to shoot with Nikon Zf as my main camera (my daughter used my Fuji X-T30II that I kept) and the first lens I got was the Voigtländer 40mm f/1.2 Nokton. Don't have any wider lenses YET, so this had to do. And oh boy it did...
Tonzah78 wrote:
(Cross-post from Nikon Zf image thread.)
Last evening I went to shoot some stars with my daughter, but nature had it's own idea of an amazing show. Haven't see this amazing auroras even in Lappland. This was only 1.7km from our home, by the still frozen lake Vitträsk in Southern Finland. I've just switched from Fuji to shoot with Nikon Zf as my main camera (my daughter used my Fuji X-T30II that I kept) and the first lens I got was the Voigtländer 40mm f/1.2 Nokton. Don't have any wider lenses YET, so this had to do. And oh boy it did...
Fell head over board in love with this lens on/with the nikon zf.
Since I mostly shoot leica rangefindera digital and analog i thought I'd sell the z version and get a vm one.
I regret this decision. While it's insanely small for a 1.2 lens on m mount, and it's supposedly the same optics, I feel like I don't see the magic as often.
But it's a great lens no doubt. I also have the summilux 50 1.4 asph and summicron 50 f2 v5.
And of course the summilux is a better lens. Bet maybe they're too similar. I don't know.
Thanks! This time we actually shot these photos in Southern Finland (Location: 60°10'36.9"N 24°30'38.6"E), not Lapland.
Only had to drive one mile from home, not some 1000km. But we actually visited Lapland in February and stayed there for a week in a large cabin with my sister's family. Still had my X-T4 back there and shot about 2000 shots in a week. It was truly a magical trip and couple nights we went out in the night to photograph auroras. Definitely gonna do it again next winter.
I had one but didn't get the wave, next time f5.6 and shoot instead of aperture testing.
handheld 3-image pano test at f5.6:
the horizon sort of tilts up-wards towards the edges, did it in lightroom, couldn't really figure out a fix so I just cropped more.
Otherwise quite impressed with lightroom especially since it's moving water and was minimal effort to do. This was the perspective option, probably doesn't look quite right and spherical would have been better but I think the edges tilted up even more with that. Not 100% sure.
f8
focussed on the 2nd row bushes near the front, thought I'd need f11 but seems similar. Still not sure if I should have focussed at infinity and then did f11 instead, will test next time in a similar situation.
I really like amount of sharpness from the lens. Seems like a nice balance - high quality but still natural.
^ I didn't even notice the license plate, just wanted to test it there wide open.
About the picture below...it's not super sharp for scenes at f1.2, especially outside of center. For a more flat scene like this you can do a central radial gradient, then inverse it and increase texture and clarity or something, slightly, then boost the overall a hair too:
^ young kid was standing in this spot a couple days ago, he was staring at me with an uncomfortable face and I realised (too late) he was about to pee. He clearly wanted to wait but his mum screamed at the poor kid do it. Could of waited 5 secs for me to pass. Stupid woman traumatized the both of us.
I know this thread has about a million samples already and the lens isn't a recent one so I'm quite late to the party, but still. Hopefully useful to someone. I'm enjoying using it outside of the house finally, and enjoying learning to use it.
50 apo has been a bit much, xf fuji apsc 35/1.4 isn't MF. And the rest I brought with me were for film so will be taking this one a bit more, but mostly just going around town. Was supposed to have a month to myself, someone doesn't want to go back to UK weather. Next trip will try the distagon 35/1.4 zm again.
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Luka
Luka, if you are still hanging out in this thread, I love your 40/1.2 images! Since your were shooting all Zeiss lenses in past days (me too ), I wonder what other lenses you haved moved on to, except the 40/1.2. A bit off topic, sorry...
- or phrased differently for others also: which lenses match with the 40/1.2? Im not so much into the Voigtländer APOs - it's not all about sharpness for me, but more about rendering.
j/k
