Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my Hexar RF and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens wide [email protected] mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
Oh, btw, the size for such a f1.4 lens is amazingly compact:
Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my Hexar RF and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens wide [email protected] mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my Hexar RF and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
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This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens wide [email protected] mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my Hexar RF and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens wide [email protected] mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my Hexar RF and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens wide [email protected] mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my [Hexar RF] (https://imgur.com/S47wtQe) and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens wide [email protected] mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
Recently I was trying to find a good Sonnar-design normal lens since I really missed my first m-mount 50mm lens: zm50 1.5. Came across this Nikkor-sc 5cm 1.4 ltm on eBay for auction and unexpectedly won the bid.
Tried it on film (Ektar 100) with my [Hexar RF] (https://imgur.com/S47wtQe) and I instantly fell in love with its vintage rendering:
This old lens is surprisingly good. I did some quick test and found that: while designed for films, this Nikkor 5cm 1.4 ltm actually fits with Leica M9's CCD quite well. Below I listed a 100% cropped comparison between this lens mounted on M9 vs. on Leica SL:
You might see that the rendering from CCD is more solid and transparent. I guess this is why so many people stick with CCD despite all of its inconveniences. (There are countless posts arguing about the sensor differences. I'd argue that, for lenses with modern designs such as ASPH/APO, the difference between CCD and CMOS might be not that much; it's the vintage lenses that really shines on that Kodak CCD)
