Joakim - Great rendering on those. The second shot is my favorite
Michael - Excellent shots from the beach...really like the grain!
Jabber - like the shot. As far as a 50 goes....I would say look into Nikkor 50 f/2 in LTM or Canon 50 f/1.4. I have never used the Canon but I have seen plenty of shots from Gary/Ron/Joe to know its a great lens.
Katie - I say go with the 21 f/1.8 for speed...or the 21 f/4 if you don't need the speed. But I say get the 21 f/1.8, phenomenal lens! Glad to hear you enjoy the 35 f/1.2, one of my favorite lenses I have ever used. As for vf....Voigtlander is great value, Zeiss is best in the game. I needed a vf for composition, I have heard many say they never used one. To each his own
Allen - great posts you have had the last couple of pages. The skyline on this page is phenomenal!
Peter - glad to see you back. Looks like you are making the SEM work. Really like the 4th shot from the 1st post
Took some pics of a friend of the family.....youngest turned 1. I turn these requests down about 99% of the time, but figured we would be down in the park anyways so why not. Shot mostly with the 50 Nokton II...took out the 35 Nokton and Canon 100 f/2 for a handful of shots. I agree that the 50 Nokton can show some funky bokeh in some instances, but 99% of my real world shots aren't going to be those situations. Bottom line, hell of a lens....and that doesn't come with the disclaimer 'for the price'
muc_marlin - Ahhh, to be honest.. Your color pictures are so fantastic, I wouldn't worry about returning the MM.
rsolti13 - You tend to coax better images out of the CV series then most... Kind of an unfair assessment of the lenses. Check Flickr and other photo sharing sites if you don't believe me
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Joakim, beautiful pastel color tones.
Allen, great compositions! Love the B&W PP'ing.
Katie, very nice moody portraits!
Michael, great subtle shots of your daughter
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Jabber, very nice lighting and composition.
Allen, superb shots!!!
Peter, wonderful B&W tones in all your shots. As Adam, I would not be concerned about returning the M-M, as your color shots are amazing.
Katie, nice captures, and I believe you about your bag! The 21 SEM, is one great lens, and there are a number of them second hand.
Ryan, amazing set!!! Your son's blue eyes that connect are great, and is my favorite
Adam, I hope to have some shots shortly with the 50 Cron Rigid II
First shots this afternoon with the M240 50 Cron Rigid II, older version 1959. I really like this lens for portraits, and I have left the shot as is. The B&W are great as there is a range of tones to work with. I have also included the B&W conversion too
Thank you Hilmar, for the kind words! I would attribute the rendering to the 50 Cron Rigid combined with the M240. This lens is really nice, easy to use and focus. There is some marginal front focus, but is easily compensated. This will be fixed once I have it CLA'd in Melbourne.
Adam and Charles, thanks for the kind words! Yes, almost all my pictures live from the colors, thats true. But there are also days, where I like to convert a lot in b&w. But is it worth to buy for those days a M-M, probably not? The pictures I see in this thread I like a lot and if my interest would be people or cities, this would be defiantly my body.
Gary, it is really nice to see, how much time you spend with your kids in the outdoors! Especially today, where are so much people influenced by electronics and loose more and more the feeling for the beauty of nature.
Charles, Congratulation of 50cron Rigid. A lens I have loved for a while the first portrait is great, very good use of light, really adding depth here. Keep them coming.
Gary, I fully agree Peter's comments, that is what we bought our expensive toy for Those will be good memory living with us.
Here is one 35cron V1 WO from last weekend, a small festival in here Mountain View.
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