That is Sedona, Arizona - and somehow Carsten guesses Arizona! Amazing! It was taken a couple weeks ago; the M8.2 was along for the ride with the 1Ds3. Here's a wide open shot with the 35 Lux ASPH -
My daughter and I went to see some puppies today at a friend's house. What's cuter than puppies? A cute little girl with puppies! Playing with a friend's 5/1 Noctilux. Not necessarily my look, but it is nice in its own right.
So your friend was like "Come play with my noctilux!" and you were like "I wish I could, but I promised to do something fun with my daughter today". To which your friend promptly responded "My dog just had puppies!". At that point your camera was already packed and your daughter was rushed to the car.
BTW, how hard was it to focus on moving puppies?
I can't even catch my dogs sitting still at f/2 never mind f/1.
adamdewilde wrote:
Wait, the M9 is 80 160 200 250 400 500 640 800 1250 1600 2000 2500 isn't it?
So what are the whole stop increments from base iso? Base iso is 160 BTW.
If I shoot straight out of camera JPGs that's what I get, if I shoot DNG Uncompressed and convert using Lightroom that's what I get. Lightroom is what was supplied with the M9 so it should be the one to use right?
BTW, I have a question about lightroom.. When I'm using the 50 MP ZE, it shows up in the list of lenses by Zeiss to correct for, along with all the other ZE lenses that is made by Zeiss. The second I click on a 35 ZE image to correct it though, Zeiss totally disappears from the menu of lens corrections. And all other lenses seem to disappear as well, except for the 50 and 100. Leica never even shows up, wouldn't Leica M9's and lenses be in the correction list, considering lightroom is partnering up with Leica?
EDIT: missed writing 250, 500, 1000
Oh and would you think that base iso is 160, 320, 640, 1250, 2500 for the M9 are those the isos I should stick with? This Swedish guy on his blog suggests 200 and 800 ...Show more →
I have assumed that since 160 is the base ISO it is also the best possible ISO for M9.
Regarding Lightroom; that Lightroom support the M9 (and its files) is something different than that it has lens profiles for the Leica lenses. So you get Lightroom together with the M9 because of it support as a raw converter for M9 dng files. If/when we'll see support for Leica lenses is probably up to Adobe or Leica.
I forgot: I have no problem with lens correction for my ZE lenses other than that LR mistakes my ZE 50/1.4 for some other ZE 50 lens but I don't have the 35/2 so I can't say if it is something specific about that lens.
One more thing, have you checked that LR is using the right profile for the camera calibration?
Ideally, stick to 160/320/640/1250/2500. Whole stops are doubling of the sensitivity, as with core photographic theory...
As usual lower the better in that ISO range. if you use auto-iso it'll use in-between isos but no biggie, I doubt you're shooting serious stuff that needs to be 'grainless' on auto-iso.
adamdewilde wrote:
So your friend was like "Come play with my noctilux!" and you were like "I wish I could, but I promised to do something fun with my daughter today". To which your friend promptly responded "My dog just had puppies!". At that point your camera was already packed and your daughter was rushed to the car.
BTW, how hard was it to focus on moving puppies?
I can't even catch my dogs sitting still at f/2 never mind f/1.
Haha! Not quite--different friends. I had written up a review comparing the new Noctilux and the Voigtländer Nokton on my blog; this was lent to round out the review. I'm going to go back and reshoot some of the comparison images.
Focusing on moving objects is just like the old days with MF on an SLR--pre-focus for success, and expect a lower hit rate than with the best of modern DSLRs.
Thank you Adam, Rod and Luka
Finallly back in Australia
Beautiful shot John!
I definitely prefer the rendering of the 35 Lux Asph, than the 35 Cron Asph. The new 35 Summilux Asph are due out this week in Australia, and I have had one on order for 3 months, trading in my 35 Summicron Asph. With the scarsity of the 35 Lux Asph I opted for the 35 Summicron Asph, but is not used in preference to 50 Lux. My final lens selection will be ZM 25/2.8, 35 Summilux Asph, 50 Summilux Asph and the 90 Summicron Asph.... for the moment
Jeff, excellent shots! The Noctilux is just an amazing lens, in the right hands of course It would be great to see some of the comparison images.
Adam, your shot above does have more chroma noise, than I have ever seen also. I have not seen this before.
I like the first Buddha shot, Charles. Someday I have to get to Thailand.
Here's one from today; I took my daughter to her school's "Fall Festival" and caught a little action with the M9. This was shot with the 40mm M-Rokkor @ f/2 to stop the action.
Ideally, stick to 160/320/640/1250/2500. Whole stops are doubling of the sensitivity, as with core photographic theory...
As usual lower the better in that ISO range. if you use auto-iso it'll use in-between isos but no biggie, I doubt you're shooting serious stuff that needs to be 'grainless' on auto-iso.
Yeah will keep that in mind.
I didn't buy the M9 to shoot auto it's dials are right in front of me, so I try to keep it on full manual and when I'm really just fooling around A mode. But I am aware of the ISO issue so I try to keep it under control at all times.
Thanks Adam! Be great to catch up in Thailand
You should not be getting the noise you are showing! Do you have some more shots to post? ISO 160 is excellent, and I find I use it 90% of the time, so I think a thorough check up of the sensor may be worthwhile.
Best
Charles
Charles - I like the 35 Lux ASPH on the M8.2 as compensation for the 1.33x crop factor. The 35 Lux ASPH's bokeh (this is not the "new" one) has more definition which can work nicely on foliage if the background isn't overly busy. If the light is coming through right, it makes nice pools of light and dark. The 50 Lux ASPH bokeh is smoother. I like the 50 Lux ASPH on the M9, but on the M8.2 it feels too long - at least for walk-around use. The 50 Lux ASPH is probably a better lens, but this 35 Lux ASPH (it's my second go around with the 35) is better than my last one.
This is the 35 Lux ASPH again, F8, 6-seconds, camera sitting on a parking garage railing -
Thanks Jeff. It was pretty much luck; I was headed to the grocery store, looked up at the sky and paused - WTF! Turned around, drove back home grabbed the M8.2 (the 1Ds3 would have been better, but I was lazy) and went to the top of parking garage. No tripod, so just rest the camera on the ledge and propped it up with the camera strap. Used the 2 second timer. I've never taken a 6 second shot the M8 (or M8.2) and it's not the cleanest file. The good thing about the M's is that force some creativity. A dSLR with a tripod and Live View would have been too easy
It was taken a couple weeks ago; the M8.2 was along for the ride with the 1Ds3. Here's a wide open shot with the 35 Lux ASPH -
Playing with a friend's 5/1 Noctilux. Not necessarily my look, but it is nice in its own right.
