Typical Contax greens, that combination of strong colour with delicate gradation, great colour tonality. I'd like both, and I do believe the day will come when the 100/2.8 APO will be about as affordable as the 280/4 R. Nothing is quite like it, and its performance equals that of the 90AA.
It looks to me like you don't have enough subject in the (thin) plane of focus to accurately judge. Try something flatter and shoot on axis in relation to the subject. Use live view to focus if possible. Which version of the 'lux are you using?
I have the E55.
I focused very accurately on the Knob above the axis. of course I use Live View every time ...
At 1.4 it looks not that sharp. I donīt shoot flat things, I bought that Lens to use it for Subjects like this ... But as I mentioned, I should do some further testing (also on plane Subjects).
I also bought the C/Y Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.4 and this lens seems to be sharper than the 50 Lux ...
However, you guys think that the Lux should be very sharp ?
I have the E55.
I focused very accurately on the Knob above the axis. of course I use Live View every time ...
At 1.4 it looks not that sharp. I donīt shoot flat things, I bought that Lens to use it for Subjects like this ... But as I mentioned, I should do some further testing (also on plane Subjects).
I also bought the C/Y Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.4 and this lens seems to be sharper than the 50 Lux ...
However, you guys think that the Lux should be very sharp ?
thanks
Florian
Short of reproduction work, I don't think anyone buys a lens to shoot flat objects, but if you want to objectively measure a lens' sharpness to determine if it's the lens or some other problem not getting you the results you want, it's best to eliminate all other possibilities with a flat field. The brick wall shot may be something of a laughable cliche to us, but it does have it's uses.
And yes, the E55 should be reasonably sharp. I can't compare it to the C/Y, but I'd say center sharpness of the copy I used was on par with ZF 50/1.4, though the Zeiss was better outside of the center frame.
Apo-Telyt 280/4 in action. Taken with 1Ds and two lights @ f/11. Besides admiring each sculpted pixel, I had two goals: get a broad catchlight off the subject lens (early Summilux 50 v2), and getting it fully in focus.
FIrst goal required flipping the camera on its back and angling a small light box very close. There's no way to shoot on a table because the table surface is then reflected. Other problem is viewing angle versus lighting angle: either the view is downward (my preference) and the lighting is upward (not my preference), or vice versa. Oh, well, I got the catchlight.
Neither stopping down nor tilt-shift can achieve the second goal given the size and shape of the subject. Therefore, I composited two frames with differing focus. Because the Telyt "breathes" with focussing, I had to resize one frame by 99.5% as determined empirically. Compositing was performed by hand with layers: I don't recommend this method for mass production!
TriTran, first shot from your 100APO series is incredible. Is it the same kind of flower as in your last image of the set? I have never seen anything like it before.
Rico. composited or not, the shot is gorgeous. the light wrap around the curves of the subject is perfect.
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TriTran, first shot from your 100APO series is incredible. Is it the same kind of flower as in your last image of the set? I have never seen anything like it before.
Rico. composited or not, the shot is gorgeous. the light wrap around the curves of the subject is perfect.
Jim
Hi Jim, the flower is protea. In the proteaceae family. Most of the species in the family are native to Australia and South Africa. The flowers could get quite large, dinner plate size.
I really like the details you get out of your lenses Rolf, I should have wrote on the description Elmarit R 1:2.8/180 and not mention any thing about it being not a APO version, sorry for the confusion.
Nice pictures Rolf.The tree is very nice with that light . I have been having a focusing issue with the K5 had to take all the shims out and put in the thinnest shim i could find and still not 100% happy with it, may need to get a kazeye to see if that helps , I also have a Leica 2x tele converter do you change the mount back on the lenses to Leica mount when you want to use it ?
I would love to have a full frame camera one day really helps with he depth of field at large apertures, its so shallow with the K5 but love the telephoto benefit with the smaller sensor . The D700 and the K5 give the same color rendition to the images that i like, that's why i chose Pentax in the first place and that i have a lot of Pentax A lenses as well.
Took these earlier with the K5 and Telyt R 1:4/250 this was my first telyt lens does a nice job in the right conditions full size and 1.1 crop
Taken with 1Ds and two lights @ f/11. Besides admiring each sculpted pixel, I had two goals: get a broad catchlight off the subject lens (early Summilux 50 v2), and getting it fully in focus.
