EMH2025 wrote:
My 73/1.5 arrives this thursday- I paid 138.00 tariff and fees for mine to USA so under 1K$ in total (837 lens)
Yamato transport links to UPS- UPS collects fees and makes delivery
I'll clear my testing (playing with) my new VM 50/3.5 (see Safari thread) so I can turn my attention to this lens- I'll post a
pic of it on M11 unless some does before me when it arrives- and then give it test run
MS-Optics informed me they are creating a web page in 26 for info and orders accessible to all of us (english translation)
We just have to pay the fees before delivery right?
gordec wrote:
We just have to pay the fees before delivery right?
You either pay in advance (as I do with cc to UPS) or driver will collect, but you have to pay to get package handed over
Once you have the tracking from Yamato (ms optics will supply), you can go on their (yamato) tracking site, that will give you the UPS tracking number, then go to UPS site put number in, it will show fee needs to paid, pay it while listening to the Beatles "The Tax Man" * (optional suggestion) and you are done until it arrives. Should be 138$. enjoy !
* in Alaska there is at present no sales or income tax (there are proposals to civilize us to taxes)- so taxes are an alien concept to which I am jolted awake to on returning to the lower 48.
EMH2025 wrote:
You either pay in advance (as I do with cc to UPS) or driver will collect, but you have to pay to get package handed over
Once you have the tracking from Yamato (ms optics will supply), you can go on their (yamato) tracking site, that will give you the UPS tracking number, then go to UPS site put number in, it will show fee needs to paid, pay it while listening to the Beatles "The Tax Man" * (optional suggestion) and you are done until it arrives. Should be 138$. enjoy !
* in Alaska there is at present no sales or income tax (there are proposals to civilize us to taxes)- so taxes are an alien concept to which I am jolted awake to on returning to the lower 48.
Late in the day in AZ, good light in morning for a test run and see how it looks with my cactus and scenic tests, I am especially interested in seeing how the closer focus looks with my cactus test subjects that are good for DOF and subject isolation. I looked at the fading light and I can see it is soft as I might expect for landscape wide open, but that too is a test in good light tomorrow.
I don't know if they fixed this in the new version, but mine fell apart a few times; I can see the same screws that hold things together in the photos above, and on mine they got loose over time. Fortunately they didn't fall out and I just put a tiny drop of loctite on them and screwed them back in; the lens has held together ever since.
bjhurley wrote:
I don't know if they fixed this in the new version, but mine fell apart a few times; I can see the same screws that hold things together in the photos above, and on mine they got loose over time. Fortunately they didn't fall out and I just put a tiny drop of loctite on them and screwed them back in; the lens has held together ever since.
Thanks. something to keep an eye, time will tell-
my tests start tomorow
I got mine. Gorgeous a little lens. I thought I had focus calibration issue, but it was fine once I got use to the focusing mechanism on M11. It is accurate both at 0.8m and infinity. However the focus patch at infinity doesn't line up perfectly, but it's in focus. .
At f1.5 it's soft with character. It think with the newer 0.8m closer focus, it just wipes away the back ground. You stop it down, it's very sharp for landscape purposes. Going to a Caribbean cruise next week, going to put it through some real life shooting.
It's rainy here in the Bay Area. Some test shots this morning.
Anyone found anything that can replace the stock lens cover when you have UV filter on? I placed a slim Sirui UV filter reversed like instructed in this thread. Now the lens cap is too small. I may just travel with the UV filter without any caps.
Bright daylight images with the 73 1.5 in my backyard, plant portraits. I like plants to test lenses especially desert plants, lots of contours, varying colors, parts and spines that catch light in different ways. I walk around my backyard and look for light on the plants. The 73 mm 1.5 gives a pretty good 3D render. I shot some photos in the distance and at F2 or so or even 5.6 this still does not seem to be a landscape lens to me, but close in or even a medium distance it shines. In contrast to the mostly F1.5 I posted on ms optics thread, it looks to me the lens benefits by a little stop down to 2.0 much and still has lots of character even in bright daylight. I can see quite a few applications for the lens from plant photos, to animal or pet photos, and as much as I am not good at sticking a camera into peoples faces it should be great for that.
gordec wrote:
I got mine. Gorgeous a little lens. I thought I had focus calibration issue, but it was fine once I got use to the focusing mechanism on M11. It is accurate both at 0.8m and infinity. However the focus patch at infinity doesn't line up perfectly, but it's in focus. .
At f1.5 it's soft with character. It think with the newer 0.8m closer focus, it just wipes away the back ground. You stop it down, it's very sharp for landscape purposes. Going to a Caribbean cruise next week, going to put it through some real life shooting.
It's rainy here in the Bay Area. Some test shots this morning.
Anyone found anything that can replace the stock lens cover when you have UV filter on? I placed a slim Sirui UV filter reversed like instructed in this thread. Now the lens cap is too small. I may just travel with the UV filter without any caps. ...Show more →0
I have previously just carried my ms-optics lenses with hood attached (keeps from my loosing them) in a Ruggard neoprene case without a cap, I think the case is sufficient to keep the lens clean enough (A zeiss wipe in case), so the UV and hood remain attached for carry/ use and I manage my misplacing a hard to replace part (the hood) and then just use the hood all the time for ms-optics lenses. This has worked well with my Petz lens so I will stick with this game plan. If need be I can swap the UV filter for a ND and replace the hood and then hope I don't misplace the UV filter.
The sharpness wide open is far more impressive than I expected, and it almost looks like a modern lens design to my eyes. I will try to do some side to side photo with my nokton 75/1.5.
The addtion of 0.8m-1m focus flow will conpromise precisive focus from mid to long distance.
Overall build quality is slightly more fragile than sonnetar 50/1.3. Turning the focus ring feels a bit wobble, while aperture ring is fine and smooth. The supplied front and rear cap dont fit the lens at all. You might try third party 52mm lens cap on the new hood.
gordec wrote:
I got mine. Gorgeous a little lens. I thought I had focus calibration issue, but it was fine once I got use to the focusing mechanism on M11. It is accurate both at 0.8m and infinity. However the focus patch at infinity doesn't line up perfectly, but it's in focus. .
At f1.5 it's soft with character. It think with the newer 0.8m closer focus, it just wipes away the back ground. You stop it down, it's very sharp for landscape purposes. Going to a Caribbean cruise next week, going to put it through some real life shooting.
It's rainy here in the Bay Area. Some test shots this morning.
Anyone found anything that can replace the stock lens cover when you have UV filter on? I placed a slim Sirui UV filter reversed like instructed in this thread. Now the lens cap is too small. I may just travel with the UV filter without any caps. ...Show more →
Not horribly wobble,but just feel like the some screws is not tighten entirely, but not likely to fall apart. It happens from infinity to 3m range in my copy.
nehemiahphoto wrote:
@Mayasan@ My copy has no wobble on the focus ring--might have something loose on yours.
Mayasan wrote:
The sharpness wide open is far more impressive than I expected, and it almost looks like a modern lens design to my eyes. I will try to do some side to side photo with my nokton 75/1.5.
The addtion of 0.8m-1m focus flow will conpromise precisive focus from mid to long distance.
Overall build quality is slightly more fragile than sonnetar 50/1.3. Turning the focus ring feels a bit wobble, while aperture ring is fine and smooth. The supplied front and rear cap dont fit the lens at all. You might try third party 52mm lens cap on the new hood.
Wide open is sharp like most modern Leicas, but it’s almost like a 73mm version of the Steel Rim. Almost very similar rendering. Soft and glowy at 1.5 and sharp and clean starting at f2. I do have to use Live View if I need reliable focus at f2 or faster aperture. Very cool little gem for sure.
Nice and colorful image. I really like lens with a tough of glow and softness wide open. I am hoping that sonnetar 73 can replace my nokton 75mm, which i sometimes find it redundant and seldom use, and I mainly shoot 50mm in Leica M body.
gordec wrote:
Wide open is sharp like most modern Leicas, but it’s almost like a 73mm version of the Steel Rim. Almost very similar rendering. Soft and glowy at 1.5 and sharp and clean starting at f2. I do have to use Live View if I need reliable focus at f2 or faster aperture. Very cool little gem for sure.
gordec wrote:
Wide open is sharp like most modern Leicas, but it’s almost like a 73mm version of the Steel Rim. Almost very similar rendering. Soft and glowy at 1.5 and sharp and clean starting at f2. I do have to use Live View if I need reliable focus at f2 or faster aperture. Very cool little gem for sure.
I'm glad you like it. I find the rendering very pleasant without being boring, which is exactly what makes this little gem so appealing.
I wanted to try my new lens at its close focus and saw that one of my gardens agave was flowering in diffuse morning light so I shot and and did a LLL 1966 as well even though 73 v 50 isn't the best comparison top image 73/1.5 at F2 and bottom 1966 at F1.4 so both a little stop down. The ms optics is just a little wilder than the 1966, I like paint portraits, especially desert plants, lots of angles curves structure detail and color and it makes setting one lens again the other easier for me to grasp. I like what I get from the 73/1.5 but it is a little wild with various light and how it captures objects with a lot of contours. The LLL 1966 is tame in comparison. Photos with M11 EV1
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