Fred Miranda wrote:
From the samples posted so far, who is loving the 40/2 Batis rendering?
I like the rendering a lot also. I have the 40mm 1.2 Voightlander, which I am very happy with. I like the perspective of the 40mm focal length, and i would like to have an AF version for travel and for the kind of quick shooting I mostly do.
The Batis 40mm seems a bit more neutral than the Voigtlander, but the Batis's rendering still has a buttery smoothness, even in high contrast images, that I find very appealing and Zeiss-like. The image of the car door lock is very beautiful to me, and you can see the sharpness in the specks of dust on the lock. The polygons that appear toward MFD images don't bother me--they never have. To me they mostly just mean that the image was made with a camera and lens and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the light and colors and forms. They sort of put the camera and lens in the image in the way that a lot of art, especially modern art, includes the context or the maker within the artwork itself. Happens a lot in theater and in novels as well as in painting. I just read the polygons as an artifact and a reference to the lens.
I like a lot of the Allen Weitz photographs at B&H. Those are some of my favorite types of images.
I am going to wait a bit to see and read more before I decide to buy the lens.
Fred Miranda wrote:
From the samples posted so far, who is loving the 40/2 Batis rendering?
I like the rendering a lot also. I have the 40mm 1.2 Voightlander, which I like a lot. I like the perspective of the 40mm focal length, and i would like to have an AF version for travel and for the kind of quick shooting I mostly do.
The Batis 40mm seems a bit more neutral than the Voigtlander, but the Batis's rendering still has a buttery smoothness, even in high contrast images, that I find very appealing and Zeiss-like. The image of the car door lock is very beautiful to me, and you can see the sharpness in the specks of dust on the lock. The polygons that appear toward MFD images don't bother me--they never have. To me they mostly just mean that the image was made with a camera and lens and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the light and colors and forms. They sort of put the camera and lens in the image in the way that a lot of art, especially modern art, includes the context or the maker within the artwork itself. Happens a lot in theater and in novels as well as in painting. I just read the polygons as an artifact and a reference to the lens.
I like a lot of the Allen Weitz photographs at B&H. Those are some of my favorite types of images.
I am going to wait a bit to see and read more before I decide to buy the lens.
Fred Miranda wrote:
From the samples posted so far, who is loving the 40/2 Batis rendering?
I like the rendering a lot also. I have the 40mm 1.2 Voightlander, which I like a lot. I like the perspective of the 40mm focal length, and i would like to have an AF version for travel and for the kind of quick shooting I mostly do.
The Batis 40mm seems a bit more neutral than the Voigtlander, but the Batis's rendering still has a buttery smoothness, even in high contrast images, that I find very appealing and Zeiss-like. The image of the car door lock is very beautiful to me, and you can see the sharpness in the specks of dust on the lock. The polygons that appear toward MFD images don't bother me--they never have. To me they mostly just mean that the image was made with a camera and lens and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the light and colors and forms. They sort of put the camera and lens in the image in the way that a lot of art, especially modern art, includes the context or the maker within the artwork itself. Happens a lot in theater and in novels as well as in painting. I just read polygons as an artifact and a reference to the lens.
I like a lot of the Allen Weitz photographs at B&H. Those are some of my favorite types of images.
I am going to wait a bit to see and read more before I decide to buy the lens.
Fred Miranda wrote:
From the samples posted so far, who is loving the 40/2 Batis rendering?
I like the rendering a lot also. I have the 40mm 1.2 Voightlander, which I like a lot. I like the perspective of the 40mm focal length, and i would like to have an AF version for travel and for the kind of quick shooting I mostly do.
The Batis 40mm seems a bit more neutral than the Voigtlander, but the Batis's rendering still has a buttery smoothness, even in high contrast images, that I find very appealing and Zeiss-like. The image of the car door lock is very beautiful to me, and you can see the sharpness in the specks of dust on the lock. The polygons that appear toward MFD images don't bother me--they never have. To me they mostly just mean that the image was made with a camera and lens and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the light and colors and forms.
I like a lot of the Allen Weitz photographs at B&H. Those are some of my favorite types of images.
I am going to wait a bit to see and read more before I decide to buy the lens.
and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the light and colors and forms. They sort of put the camera and lens in the image in the way that a lot of art, especially modern art, includes the context or the maker within the artwork itself. Happens a lot in theater and in novels as well as in painting. I just read the polygons as an artifact and a reference to the lens.