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GH1 + Cooke Kinic f1.9/1" vs Tevidon f1.4/25mm - flower
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:04 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:04 pm
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A few shots in (and for) a friends' flower shop using LUMIX GH1 with a Cooke Kinic f1.9/1" lens. Shot all fully open. (Further down the comparison with a Zeiss Jena f1.4/25mm Tevidon)











Well, interesting how such an old Petzval lens design behaves...

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Klaus

These are magical. Does the lens really provide that curvature of focus?


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YEP, all straight from the camera except resized!

That fuzzyness and blur off-center really helps to accentuate
the center which allows some creative use. Need to try what
Petzvals are famous for - portraits!


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Here for comparison a few taken today using a freshly converted Carl Zeiss Jena Tevidon 1.4/25mm fully open at f1.4













bokeh @f1.4




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Oooh, I like the Tevidon MUCH better !!!

These Tevidon shots are terrific! All of them, and especially the first one, wow!


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Yes Orio, these are indeed some I also like a lot more as compared to some shot in the park.
Maybe the lens is a bit too cold (also visible in these shots). The light here was a mix of artificial
+ natural light, usually very hard to use, but it worked quite nicely...

The strange thing is that the electronic viewfinder EVF flickers a lot caused by that electronic
ballast lighting, no easy to use then.


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kds315* wrote:

Maybe the lens is a bit too cold (also visible in these shots).


Actually, I like that.

kds315* wrote:
The strange thing is that the electronic viewfinder EVF flickers a lot caused by that electronic
ballast lighting, no easy to use then.


Which camera did you take these shots with?


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Panasonic LUMIX GH1, 12Mpix direct to jpg for ease of use, using full sensor format (some use 16-9 format on a G1 when using such vignetting lenses since this then crops it away - unfortunately not possible on my GH1), but I wanted to see the full performance.


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I think this is a great results! Thank you for sharing them!


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Cooke's results are hard to get use, Tevidon shots are more 'normal' Smile


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Looks better than Lansbaby!Congrats


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ANYTHING looks better than Lensbaby... Wink Wink
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