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Surprisingly, the Simeras produce fine blues while not neglecting the warmer tones of oranges, ochres and other red-influenced hues. I may have had to use a cooler WB setting just a few times, but mostly on the Kolari-shaved a7rII. More often, a warming filter is needed with them.
But I am pretty hard to please with cool lenses, being ex-Voigtlander too. Now, I don't enjoy them because the cool overlay seems to remain in some lesser form after warming the image. Obviously I am not one of those who believes you can fix any color issues with computer codes. I think it is a little more involved than that, once you know what you want rather than an approximation, maybe that is fine as a starting point.
Zeiss use cool casts in many lens ranges, so they are easy to decide if they are for you. Cosina is influenced by them, but is also close to Leica M sensibilities, in the older CV ones (mid-last decade) more so than the newest.
The purest colors in my cameras come from the original a7r, I'll post one OOC and final below, from the 28mm. That's AWB on that camera in #1, then after warming in Photoshop, #2. And a 50mm portrait, midday light, hard to see without sunglasses. Just reduced exposure, and basic moves.
Warmer tones in the Simeras come out in skin tones in suitable light, and in faces particularly, so it will depend on what you shoot as well as your light. Looking across a lot for mine, maybe 1000 finals would be book-ready, color is close to being 'just right' or it can be attained pretty quickly.
And very important, the files are very responsive in post-processing - you get what you ask for, and that is not always true of other lenses. Color is lovely, IMO, but it's so personal we know.
The 50mm - we'll see what you think. I call it the improved Summilux! Why? Very solid base design in the Summilux, slight revision of elements shape and sequencing, 14 aperture blades to remove polygons in bokeh balls; the introduction of their very good HRI glass in 3 of 8 elements; a balanced choice of glass, just one asph and just one ED; very light, great presence and really surprising IQ stopped down. The highlight handling is special, comes from the glass. A keeper for me, this one.
And let me point to the 3D that just flows out form each image; no leading lines here..
..it's just engieering to well-developed image-based goals. see drawing of distant horizon.
light handling Simera 50/1.4
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