snowboarder wrote:
You call it "glow", to me it's just kind of ugly softness...
I have to agree. With the 5.6 shot, it's clear that some parts of the dragonfly are in focus (even though they're not sharp and there's very little detail), whereas with the 1.4 shot the entire image is hazy and blurred--almost like it was taken with a fogged lens.
Spoke to a few (former) owners and while they rave over its sharpness at ~5.6 and smaller, they all mentioned that sharpness wasn't why they bought it in the first place.
I guess if you want sharp wide-open above all, the 90 AA is where it's at.
nixland wrote:
Could it be that my lens is the first version of Lux 80? (Leitz Wetzlar name on the front ring instead of Leica)
I haven't tried it at f/2 or f/2.8 yet because I always shoot at wide open But I tried once at f5.6 and it's very very sharp (see below).
Mine has the Leitz Wetzlar name on it as well. Are you having any problems focusing? If you tripod mount it and use magnified LV, is that as sharp as you can get it? It may be a problem with the lens if you can't.
nixland wrote:
carstenw: that's why I ask in the previous page if the latest Lux 80 is sharper than what I have (first version with Leitz Wetzlar name on the front lens)
I don't think there are any optical differences between versions. Maybe the coating was improved along the way, but not the lens itself.
freaklikeme wrote:
Nixland, here are the crops. I'm curious, on you shot, is the mouth any more in-focus than the eyes? It seems like the focus starts to get better on your crop on the extreme right side going down to the corner.
Here's crops of the wide open shots above.
Thanks for the crop sample.
No, the sharpest part was her cheek The eyeball and the mouth is OOF.
carstenw wrote:
I don't think there are any optical differences between versions. Maybe the coating was improved along the way, but not the lens itself.
I'll try to borrow my friend's latest Lux 80 to take a comparison shots. He is in different town so I'll find time to meet him. Wish me luck.
(BTW, Carsten -- I saw your derelict Berlin amusement park this last weekend featured at the end of the movie of "Hanna". You really covered that place well -- I knew it immediately!)
