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 p.990 #16 · Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread | |
Gary, I prefer the B&W where the flare adds to the mood, but isn't as dominating for attention due to its colour.
Robert - nice find 
Michael - beautiful and filmic. Yosemite is a beautiful place, having briefly experienced it over 10 years ago during a 'drive through' back to SF. It's a place one may almost be intimidated to photograph because it's already been done so often, and so well. Even more the case when passing through under high-noon sun.
Arka - I prefer the 50mm image. It has a smoother, creamier quality to it, though not sure how much that's a factor of different processing.
Edward - love the layering and mood of the biker image!
Andrew - cool angle and location.
freitz - very peaceful. Must have been a nice feeling relaxing with a more manageable camera kit.
Ryan - great variety (scenes and lenses!). I'm also torn about the CV vs. FLE as I also have the CV and it does the job quite well. I suppose I'll have to try the FLE to see what kind of an improvement/difference it actually makes, other than size reduction. Good also to see something from the 21/2.8 ASPH.
About the 28 Cron on M9 and M240... It's a good question about how much of the vignetting character is a factor of the sensor and how much is profile related. I don't think I can state a definitive answer, but I can share my observations.
I shot a more controlled white surface test today, though IMO, still not ideal. Referring primarily to f/2 shooting, my feeling is:
M9's vignetting is slightly stronger and more 'top heavy' in that a horizontal composition will have stronger vignetting at the top left and top right corners than the bottom corners. This vignetting 'position' is consistent whether coded or uncoded. The M240's vignette in comparison, feels like it has been shifted up and is more centered, though the bottom 1/4 of the frame (all the way across) seems to have more mid tone darkness than the top 1/4 of the frame. The M240's vignetting position is also consistent whether coded or uncoded.
Of the two cameras, there seems to be a bigger difference in the coded corrections applied by the M240 than by the M9. Both pull back highlight values, compared to uncoded, but the M9 does so only slightly. The M240's correction is much more dramatic compared to shooting the lens uncoded. Uncoded, it's closer to that of the M9's vignetting character and also similar in terms of exposure/brightness range based on histogram values. Coded, and the image is more even with lighter vignetting, but as noted earlier, exposure seems to have been pulled back noticeably. I see this very obviously in the histogram and would guess it results in around a 1/2 stop highlight reduction. In fact, the histogram looks compressed at both ends, but more so on the highlight end.
Color shift on the M9 is a bigger problem, both uncoded and coded. Coded, the under correction results in some magenta on the left side and cyan/blue on the right side at f/2. Stopping down this color shift decreases but the bottom corners become increasingly more green, noticeable from f/4 on. Uncoded and the left side shifts magenta and right side cyan/blue, but past f/4 it's not terribly noticeable outside of scenes that require very neutral tones.
M240 color shift is much less. Uncoded it's really only noticeable wide open, with the right side being a more noticeable magenta shift compared to the left side's blue with some slight magenta. Beyond f/2.8 it's unlikely to be very noticeable. The M240's profile seems to be very effective at neutralizing color shift across the aperture range, with perhaps a hint of green/cyan along the very left edge that probably will rarely be noticeable in normal use. Shooting the lens coded or uncoded on the M240 results in no normally discernible color differences, such as WB or tint shift.
While I'm sure Leica will never do it, it would be cool to have an option for the M240 to shoot the lens coded and retain EXIF, but to disable vignetting correction. It would probably return some of the Cron's M9 magic to the M240 and avoid the terrible reduction of highlight values at wider apertures seen in the current profile.
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, don't you have 35lux FLE, let's do a even trade once I got the zm. 
