naturephoto1 wrote:
Here is an image cross posted in the Sony FE images thread looking at farmers fields along Loch Valley Road, New Tripoli, PA.taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 180mm f3.4 ApoTelyt lens and my A7r camera, ISO 100, lens set to about f16 for 1/20 second. Processed in LR6.
Rich
To my eye, this has been over-sharpened to death. All I see are digital artifacts. Honestly (and I am not trying to be rude), it looks either like a 100% crop from a picture with lots of moire or something taken with a decade-old digital camera. Your photos are very good and you obviously put a lot of time and effort into the scene and the taking of the picture, but the results as I see them on my screen just do not look good.
Taylor Sherman wrote:
To my eye, this has been over-sharpened to death. All I see are digital artifacts. Honestly (and I am not trying to be rude), it looks either like a 100% crop from a picture with lots of moire or something taken with a decade-old digital camera. Your photos are very good and you obviously put a lot of time and effort into the scene and the taking of the picture, but the results as I see them on my screen just do not look good.
I only used a +2 in clarity in LR6. Then in Photoshop I only kept reducing the image size to the out put size and used a a slight unsharp mask in Photoshop before saving the image. The only other things done to the image were to adjust the contrast and to work a little on the highlights, whites (and lights), shadows and blacks, very little in vibrance and saturation, and finally to remove a spot that was found on the photo sensor. Going back to the original image most of the difference appears to be due to the contrast adjustment. Without question, there is a very noticeable difference as the image has been reduced in size from the original raw file which was saved as a TIFF file and then sized to the JPEG output for posting.
naturephoto1 wrote:
Let me put it this way... my R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt with my R 1.4X Apo extender appears to be noticeably sharper than my newly acquired Canon new FD 500mm f4.5 L lens.
The 280/4 with Leica 1.4x extender is also sharper than the Leica 400mm f/4 modular APO-Telyt. If maximum performance in this (or nearby) focal length is the goal it will be a long time before it's bettered. OTOH if light weight is high on your checklist, look elsewhere
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE image thread of Mountain Laurel (Kalmia Latifolia) flowers, Shenandoah National Par, Virginia taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 100m f2.8 Apo-Macro-Elmarit lens and my Sony A7r camera, ISO 200, lens set to f8 for 1/80 second. Image processed in LR6.
wiseguy010 wrote:
I really like these pictures. I now wonder if it still makes sense to buy this lens for a Nikon-camera and modify this lens for it. Or are there other more current cheaper options that made this combination more or less obsolete?
Thanks for the comment.
As far as less expensive alternatives, I'll echo what others have already said – there's no other lens that can match its performance at this focal length. Beyond the resolution its capable of, it seems to render more colors in a scene than other lenses for example. Also holds up very well in harsh lighting where others break-down along bright edges with CA, etc. If you can somehow get your hands on one to test for a week, I highly recommend it. Though it can be Leitaxed for Nikon, there are easier alternatives. I can't wait to use it on an A7rii!
Vario-Elmar-R 28-70 II (at 28mm), Speed Booster, NEX-7, Capture One.
In other news, I bought an X-E2 and Speed Booster Ultra to try out. Unfortunately, the Ultra appears to have thicker glass elements, and won't mount modern R lenses (21-35, 28-70, 35-70, etc) due to the lens shroud. So much for GAS.
This was cross posted in the Sony FE Images thread and was taken July 16 about 30 minutes before sunset along Loch Valley Road, New Tripoli, PA. Image taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 180mm f3.4 ApoTelyt lens and my Sony A7r, ISO 100, lens set to f16 for 1/10 second and processed in LR6.
Vario-Elmar-R 28-70 II (at 28mm), Speed Booster, NEX-7, Capture One.
In other news, I bought an X-E2 and Speed Booster Ultra to try out. Unfortunately, the Ultra appears to have thicker glass elements, and won't mount modern R lenses (21-35, 28-70, 35-70, etc) due to the lens shroud. So much for GAS.
Cheers,
Jon
I have an Ultra too. The Summilux-R 35 and version 1 Summicron-R 35 won't mount on it properly. I have to move the Speedbooster elements backwards, causing the lenses to focus way past infinity.
Is the older Speedbooster better in this respect?
I haven't seen the R-Ultra problems documented anywhere on the internet so I'm "glad" to see this.
With the first version, I can set the Speed Booster so that I can focus to infinity at the lens' infinity setting. Then again, the initial lens mounting was rather stiff, which may -- in retrospect -- have been the shroud grinding against the Speed Booster's front element, so there's a chance the rather strong field curvature that I see is partially caused by that. :-) This compares with the Ultra, which leaves a gap of about 1mm between the flanges when the Speed Booster Ultra is set to focus accurately to infinity with my Summicron 90 (which doesn't have a shroud).
Setting the Ultra so that those lenses can mount, if I recall correctly, the 28-70 and 35-70 hit infinity when set to about 7m; the 21-35, however, hits infinity at a little past 1m, which doesn't work for me...even though the field curvature is virtually eliminated.
Thankfully Adorama has a rather lenient return policy. (I'm returning the entire kit, not just the Speed Booster.) I described the problems in detail and the customer service representative thought the focus problems were due to the camera. Heh. If not knowledgeable, they are generous, and I'm sure I could find someone knowledgeable there if need be.
Thanks Jon. What really surprises me is that Metabones' website (http://www.metabones.com/products/details/MB_SPLR-E-BM2) lists only 4 problematic lenses. It seems they didn't update the list to reflect the Ultra design. This is rather misleading.
I had the 35-70 f/4 briefly. The lens shrouds of the newer R lenses should be removable, no?
Hi, Andrew, it is 2nd version, latest without ROM.
A few more with Leica R and DF. I still shoot a lot with Leica R. Having tons of images on my HD.
You can see I enjoy shooting through bright OVF. None of them cropped and all with minimal PP to my taste. Absolutely focus accuracy is never needed for many images shown, though I nailed focus for most of them.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, I really like the lens for video. I may have a line on one locally...
Your pictures are excellent - as usual!
Andrew
zhangyue wrote:
Hi, Andrew, it is 2nd version, latest without ROM.
A few more with Leica R and DF. I still shoot a lot with Leica R. Having tons of images on my HD.
You can see I enjoy shooting through bright OVF. None of them cropped and all with minimal PP to my taste. Absolutely focus accuracy is never needed for many images shown, though I nailed focus for most of them.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE lens thread and taken at 10:19 AM on June 29,2015 of a wave breaking at Sand Beach, Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park, Maine. It had rained and stormed the previous day and the surf was rough as the waves were crashing in and the beach was closed for the day. Image taken hand held with my Sony A7r and my Leica R 180mm f3.4 Apo Telyt lens. ISO 100, lens set to f5.6 for 1/800 second and processed in LR6.
I think it is probably OK to say you are selling your Summilux-R 35 and 80 on the B+S board.
If it wasn't OK to say you are selling your Summilux-R 35 and 80 on the B+S board, I'm sure someone would have said something by now. GLWS. A special pair of lenses
I am excited to have finally got my 28-R v2 back from a minor repair/CLA and am just getting around to PP my first shots with it in a long time, alongside 180/3.4 stuff as well.
In the meantime, here are a couple with 90 Cron-R E55.
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