Do bear in mind that the "floater" comes with a little threaded ring which can be screwed on to protect the threads if you're not using the hood. In such case, the front of the lens assembly as seen from the side looks a lot like the previous aspherical version, though the ring is totally smooth and has no retaining profile for the side-pinch, clip-on hood as the aspherical does.
Another obvious difference is the that next to the infinity mark, the aspherical Summilux has an engraved marking for 30' while the newest version has a 15'.
Or for you cheese-eating, baguette-loving, "out all August on holiday", automotive-ly small-displacement tubodiesel-loving metric types:
10 meters for the aspherical and 7 for the 2010 "edition".
Ron, superb portrait capture! Great lighting and expression
Following on with discussions, regarding LR4, I am finding the downsizing algorithm is now excellent. I have no need for the PS scripts for downsizing in three stages any longer. The best is the ability to upload directly and quickly to zenfolio, or directly send as a book, with blurb books. I have had two books back already, and the quality has been excellent!!
Nice portraits as usual Charles. Good to know that the Blurb function is working well and is good quality. I will have to find some time to do that one day... Out of curiosity, what are your size/quality export settings for web posting?
Very nice Charles - I particularly like the light in the first one!
Good to know about LR4, and I too would like to know your export settings. I have yet to try version 4, but will at some point. The primary reason I stopped using LR3 for resized exports was because when certain resizing parameters in the export options were selected, LR failed to include metadata (captions, keywords) in those exported images. It was a problem with the LR3 version at the end of 2010. It's possible later versions addressed it, however I haven't bothered to reinvestigate.
Gary, again a beautiful portrait of your kids. I like their expression.
Ron, Thanks for detail reply. I appreciate your time. I briefly visit PhtotoMa, and decide don’t want add extra step in my flow. LR has the similar function to downsize and sharp as Charles pointed out. I tried it, but feel I wasn’t able to get the look I want. (I haven’t try LR4 on this though.) Plus, I kind of use Flickr as a Backup for me so I export full size jpeg to flickr and Let Flickr does resize for me. Sometimes, it is OK, sometimes, it just dull compare to what I see in my computer. I can’t export multiple size using LR downsize function as for now, it will be either too time consuming or be too mess for my flickr account. I feel the power of multistage sharpening will be more apparent on landscape shot, especially foliage, tree etc.
The reason I am asking is: Do your photos’ excellent sharpness/clarity have anything to do with the way you sharp? Looks like good PP in LR will be able to get that. A good encouragement for me as I don’t want complicates my PP. My time for photography is very limited.
The portrait of the lady is really nice. Nothing beat a nice window light.
Charles, thanks for the info about downsize of LR4. I tried LR3 before but never LR4. I will see if it is an improvement over before. If I decide use it, it will complicate my work flow. I have to export different size than 100% to Flickr. I have using Flickr Pro account to back up my ‘good’ images for a while
Both portrait are nice but the first stands out. I like the lighting, tone. Look those details on face, wonderful.
Here a picture. 50lux WO. On light rail. We took public transportation to City Library. My kids love it. It is a window reflection.
Glad to read your kids love taking public transit - get them used to it while young, otherwise you'll probably be driving them everywhere when they're teens.
I wouldn't recommend Photo Mechanic if all you want to do is export resizing. It's strength is in applying metadata to files. For example I can edit a sports event of a couple thousand images quite quickly and can create unique ID'd captions of players with keywords for about 300-500 images in an hour or so.
Nice image, and I really like the ones you posted in the f/1.2 thread as well!
Michael, very nice portrait capture!!! The 50 Lux is just amazing for capturing portraits.
With respect to LR4, the export settings can easily adjusted to suit the final presentation. I am still using lessons from lynda.com, to relearn and understand the settings for LR4 and CS6 Beta. There are a substantial number of changes, that will affect the final presentation of IQ. For FM postings, I used 1200 px on the long side, image restricted to 350kb, with no enlargements ticked. For Zenfolio, I use 2048 px on the long side, and quality set to 92. The real beauty of LR4, is the ease of workflow now. Any images requiring tweaking in CS6, it is just a matter of Crtl E, the file is opened in CS6, adjustments made, and then Crtl S, the image is saved in LR4 and present in LR4 in a very seem less way.
charles.K wrote:
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Output Sharpening
Output Sharpening is set to Screen, and the Amount is Standard.
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This is what I tend to use more and more as well instead of PS scripts for web and if you put a little effort into the input sharpening I agree it seems to be just fine.
Ron and Charles, Thanks for comment and useful info.
I have find export full size without sharpen for screen work best for me for flickr. Unless I want display original size(1200) here, I can't use standard sharpen for screen and import to flickr. The flickr downsized version will be very bad with halo.
Nate, Again, a nice compose with interesting light and shadow.
Another from Ocean Beach, Cliff house. 90Elmarit.
The light condition that day is not good, quite flat and harsh with some Haze. So I did a little more PP than usual try to bring something interesting out.
Nate, excellent composition and PP'ing
Michael, nice shot. I find with flat lighting, and with the 75 and 90 FL's, I need to experiment with the black levels quite a lot.
Contas, nice portrait! Nice skin tones too
Kelly, very nice captures
