Jean, Enjoy the set. Love the color and detail.
Jack, ‘Age of Innocence’ is great, I feel their happy.
Alex, It certainly looks that way. But actually, it is better than putting money in bank right now.
One from yesterday.
Halfmoon Bay, (sadly, I didn’t bring 21-35mm, and miss many interesting shot in WA, there are many opportunity there.)
I brought 35cron, 58mm Rokkor (a new king in my book, the more I use it, the more I am impressed.) and 80-200mm(great lens, cover all my need from 100-200. Almost equal a set of prime performance. Especially before 150mm. F4 is reasonable for Tele.) It is a family out, so no tripod. all snap shots
Jean jacques wrote:
zhangyue: like the green of the grass and the blue of the sea
where is it?
Thanks for comments. The place called Half moon Bay. a 40min drive from here Google's hometown. We spend half day there having brunch at Ritz Carlton and then walk around at beach for about a hour.
I too have been looking into the 58mm Rokkor. I see and hear good things. Which version seems to be the one to get?
zhangyue wrote:
Jean, Enjoy the set. Love the color and detail.
Jack, ‘Age of Innocence’ is great, I feel their happy.
Alex, It certainly looks that way. But actually, it is better than putting money in bank right now.
One from yesterday.
Halfmoon Bay, (sadly, I didn’t bring 21-35mm, and miss many interesting shot in WA, there are many opportunity there.)
I brought 35cron, 58mm Rokkor (a new king in my book, the more I use it, the more I am impressed.) and 80-200mm(great lens, cover all my need from 100-200. Almost equal a set of prime performance. Especially before 150mm. F4 is reasonable for Tele.) It is a family out, so no tripod. all snap shots
Great scenery, Michael. It looks like a nicely kept golf course.
I follow your Rokkor posts and I am glad I decided to get one too. Which version do you have?
Well, Manu, your lens collection is getting bigger each week Congrats on your new 'R' glass!
Looking forward to see some images. Although not the same focal length or speed but let us know how it compares to Zeiss 100MP.
zhangyue wrote:
My impression is the glass has copy variation. Mine seems good enough to me. Don't be fooled by its 55mm filter thread, the glass is huge and heavy. I feel almost like hold a 85mm 1.4 Lens. but it does have some play, which is not surprising for the amount of glass inside. Build quality is good but not up to Leica or even ZE/ZF standard. As I feel the focus is very smooth without enough Damping. (could be just my copy, which also show inconsistency at around 1M)
ah, missed this post when i was asking you about how you felt about the rokkor vs the nikkor. for some reason i stopped getting notifications for this thread.
sounds like your rokkor's helicoid was probably relubed with the wrong grease. rokkors typically have stiffer damping than most other lens brands from the same time period and it definitely shouldn't have any play in the focus.
Jones, My Rokkor is metal focus ring version. 'Legend' said Metal version has better build and optics. But I don't know about optics and wouldn't trust it, but build should be true. See Sebboh's comment above. He has a lot more experience on Rokkor
Manu, congr! look forward to see pics!
Dreck, previous owner tell me the lens is horrible before he send to Jim have it fully CLA and converted. The inconsistency can't be fixed without new helicoid.
Anyway, I still love what I got and after see through viewfinder with this Rokkor, it is no way back. I should not comment/review Rokkor in Leica thread.
Lovely picks everyone, really enjoy yours zhangyue! Was inspired and picked up a Leitax'd Summicron R 50 f/2 for my D800. Most of my shots these days are of my kids, so I'll impose two with the Cron 50 of my son and daughter (2nd one heavily cropped). Wish I'd had this camera and lens for a solo photo trip to NYC a few months ago...
Great shots, guys! More and more amazing shots from R! ))
Ordered extension tube 8mm special for R35/1,4. By my experiments the focusing distance will be in the range 10-15mm from the front lens. Maybe arrived in few days, want to try this idea for crazy bokeh
Alex,
the worlinlens-mount has arrived, that was rather quick! Thanks a lot!
(for the others: this is a conversion mount like the Leitax, it seems to have the same quality of make, but a different price tag...)
I will post a couple of shots with the Apo Telyt 280/4 + 1,4x Apo extender and D700,
but first, here is a shot with the Telyt without converter on the D7100 (borrowed), since I try to find out whether it will be worth to get the D7100 for the Telyt as a FL extender, or/and get the 1,4x converted to Nikon so I can use it both bare and with extender on the D700 and/or D7100.
first a shot of a duck for good luck,
with D7100 and Telyt 280/4, no extender, ISO 100, 1/1000, I think f 4.5
edited to a different version I did with Photoshop rather than Capture One (with default sharpening).
I think I should have turned sharpening off in the Camera plus set it to RAW and not JPG (ooops... )
and a couple of 100% crops (some from different shots):
I have no images that are of the same subject since the D7100 war borrowed during a trip and I also had to change mounts on the Telyt back to Leica to use it with the extender.
I'll need to do more samples, as soon as I have access to the D7100 again, so far I like the results with D700 and extender much better, despite ISO 800. (mood, 3D-ness, fine structures)
darrellc, very cute kids. I will suggest you try some soft lighting condition. That is the most difficult lighting you would expect for portrait
cyra, what kind of comment I can give other than drool The D700 cop show that sensor is the limit factor. the detail looks crude. D800 might show half of its potential. The limit factor of this lens is not its performance but how you can achieve that performance in field. IMHO.
I'd be interested to know how this compare to Canikon 300f2.8 lens.
Here are two more from 80-200. Highly recommended lens. My flickr resize doesn't do their justice.
Wiltraud, thanks Really very fast shipping, I'm surprising a bit ))
This is usual Chinese mounts, but modified for better working. And possible additional modification of inner slot for aperture lever, some lenses have wide angle of moving this lever and the aperture does not fully closed with standard mounts
Great sharpness with 1,4x! Btw, recently finished the first 1,4x modification for Nikon from front side.
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The D700 cop show that sensor is the limit factor. the detail looks crude. D800 might show half of its potential. The limit factor of this lens is not its performance but how you can achieve that performance in field. IMHO.