OH! Sorry I shut this thread down. Enjoy your Leica and Zeiss lens if you can afford them. You will never regret it.
Now here is the compensation.
I took these tests during Lunch break under full sun. So almost all of them over exposure at f1.4. For Leica ASPH, I pull ISO to ISO80. Performance will hurt but resolution should be there. All shots are tripoded with 2s release delay, but no MLU. Focused use LCD zoom 100% at center.(Leica ASPH is based on two test shot, pick a better one so it is not optimized, but just FYI) I didn’t tweak WO but exposure as Zeiss Planar always overexposure.
At this distance, I don’t see much focus shift, but I did refocus for all of them at working aperture. except for Leica for obvious time reason.
This is a lot work involve than I thought and kind of boring.(I should not have promised to do this) I personally always trying to avoid do test like this, at least not compare 4 lenses at the same time
Body are Nikon D700, and Leica M9. D700 is not really a good tool for this. but for your entertainment
I did several test on
1. mid-distance resolution and Bokeh,
2. infinity resolution.
3. close range Bokeh. (will post those later.)
The test subject are not very interesting. Again, to prove even Leica or Zeiss can\'t save a poor photo with boring light and subject.
From top to bottom: 50lux R v1, Nikkor 50mm 1.2 AIS, Zeiss Planar 501.4, Leica ASPH 50mm 1.4.
Lightroom setting are default adobe profile, 25 1 25 0 sharp. (Leica might have some advantage for AA free)
Feb 26, 2013 at 02:48 PM
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