From Gregory\'s post, the Noct 1.0 renders beautifully on film but when I see a lot of shots from this lens on M8/M9, the pics seem to be missing some depth (my personal opinion).
It\'s probably in part due to various levels of post processing skills and the willingness, or lack thereof, to push digital files considerably in post.
Back about 6-8 years ago when digital submissions became a lot more prevalent for publication, it was pretty obvious when a given prepress operator was light handed with digital files. It often resulted in muddy repro, lackluster colours, etc. People were just not comfortable manhandling digital files to achieve a film-like look. (BTW, I have ~10 years of prepress experience)
Gregory\'s images are a perfect example. I don\'t know how much post he did, but these images are well beyond what would be default settings for digital files. That\'s the way a lot of film looks once printed. Clipped shadows, saturated colours... Instead with digital we have people creating HDR images that preserve shadow and highlight detail to a fault. Perhaps it\'s technically perfect, but often, to my eyes, it\'s bland.
The more I use LR now, the more I\'m pushing contrast levels to the point where I\'m getting a lot of pop. In contrast (haha) when I processed Canon RAW files with DPP I tended to a relatively neutral rendering. I\'m not really sure why. It\'s not that my M9 + ZM images need more help in post. Maybe I just have different expectations, perhaps partly influenced by this thread.
I think post processing is a somewhat unspoken factor here. We all do it, each to varying degrees. I don\'t think it\'s a problem at all, but it probably causes some readers to expect certain kinds of results as a default from the M8/9.
Maybe we should all be posting our LR settings with each image (not).
For example, this image shot with the ZM 21 2.8 the camera didn\'t read the hand coding on the lens, so there\'s more vignetting than usual. But in LR I changed the following settings from default to get a more \'polarized\' kind of look:
exposure +0.10
contrast: 61
clarity: 34
Tone Curve
Lights: 84
Darks: -41
HSL
Hue
yellow -23
green -21
blue -4
Saturation
yellow -25
blue-42
Luminance
blue -42
A few more from wandering around the neighbourhood this afternoon:
