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I received my copy of the all-black, MC version of the lens yesterday, and had a quick chance to take some VERY unscientific shots, of my (mostly) patient wife. I was curious to see how the lens rendered people, since that tends to be my favorite subject, but generally I wanted to see the changes in resolution, focus fall-off, vignetting, and bokeh, from f/1.5 to f/2.8. These were all taken on an M10 with the Leica Summilux 50mm f/1.4 ASPH profile applied. Otherwise they are straight out of camera, with no other adjustments other than the Adobe Color profile in LR.
You can see the images here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EXxd7wrZqUSfKE0VvGukZL4uSvongujf?usp=sharing
Even sitting down my wife tends not to be very still, so I wouldn't use these to judge focus shift by; others' tests above demonstrate that better. A few things I've noticed though: I find the color from this lens very pleasing and "punchy." I'm going to be using this on color film next, and then black & white. I used to own the LTM version of the Nokton 50 1.5 v1, and eventually sold it because while the resolution was great, I found the resulting images a bit "flat" looking. To my eye this version is definitely different. It has a good amount of that Zeiss-like 3D pop which I love, in many of the images I've seen from this so far (at some point I'd like to compare its rendering to the Zeiss C-Sonnar, though I'm not sure when I'll actually get a chance to do that). I'm excited to keep digging into its properties, but I'm really enjoying it so far, and it's also incredibly compact and portable!
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