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PostPosted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:28 am    Post subject: stevehuffphoto's fast lens test Reply with quote
Interesting read, but how do you nail that focus at this kind of DoF? Shocked

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/01/07/clash-of-the-titans-the-ultimate-leica-m-super-fast-5060-lens-battle-by-kristian-dowling/

here's another interesting article:
http://3dkraft.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:adorable-35s-35mm-speed-lens-comparison-leica-slr-magic-mitakon-canon-speedbooster-samyang&catid=40:camerasandlenses&Itemid=2


PostPosted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Really nice articles there.

I do like in the first one Leica Hermes and Hexanon V.2 but money pot to small for those Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pretty brainless to shoot model with this DOF.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
Pretty brainless to shoot model with this DOF.

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I've seen very nice potraits with ultra fast lenses like these, especially in available light. Look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJ96onYmu0 - he's not the best photographer in world but his samples are much better than these from Steve.
Also I've seen stunning potraits with even more narrow DOF like
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraleal/7826651090/in/faves-54671350@N02/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawhead/6855450265/in/faves-54671350@N02/
Or here from one of our forum members http://www.flickr.com/photos/32681588@N03/7832307066/in/faves-54671350@N02/
Not "brainless" at all imho. But I have to admit that in Steves session any less exotic 100€ lens would have looked much better indeed.



Latest Noctilux looks really awesome for an 0.95 lens, but it's simply not affordable for me (and most of us)

I had Nokton 50/1.1 and I didn't really like it. Wide open sharpness was usable and nearly as good as the latest Noctilux wide open, but when stopped down it didn't really improve and was inferior to most fast low budget 50ies when stopped down to F1.4 to F11 (Minolta MD 50/1.4, Konica 50/1.4,...).
Colors, contrast, CA correction, corner performance and so on where not good, all below average even when stopped down to F5.6 or F8. Usually I like weirdo bokeh but the bokeh of that lens was often very distracting and ugly, even to my funky-bokeh-loving eyes, which quite sucks on an F1.1 lens which doesn't work very well stopped down. It is more a toy lens for ultra low light special purpose, imho too much for ~700€ used, even with RF-coupling.

Unlike the Nokton the Noctiluxes are becoming much better stopped down as far as I know and have a somewhat nicer bokeh - so they are also good for general usage and are much less "toy lenses". But their prices are not even worth a discussion imho Laughing

PS: On Leica M3 it was very easy to nail the focus. And on Leica M5 I only had a very few misfocused pics. Leica rangefinder makes it fast and easy.

Last edited by ForenSeil on Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:28 am; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've got to say I'm with Forenseil here. There are cases when F0.95 is in order, which are mostly available light portraits. This is test, so one should cut the author some slack for using suboptimal settings.

Noctilux f0.95 looks amazing, too bad it costs too much to even consider purchasing it.


PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:43 am    Post subject: Re: stevehuffphoto's fast lens test Reply with quote
stingOM wrote:
Interesting read, but how do you nail that focus at this kind of DoF? Shocked


It is not that challenging at that distance with a subject patiently posing.

Here's a shot I am happy how it came out - it is taken with the Nokton 25/0.95 wide open - focal length is shorter, but focusing distance is also much shorter than in Steve's shots and my daughter only stood like that for a second or two, so I was lucky to both have got the focus and to not get anything weird in the frame (this is not cropped):


http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurentiucristofor/6692607963


PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



A good (means it doesn't look very ugly here) bokeh sample of Nokton 50/1.1 on Leica M5, Lucky SHD100, ND Filter

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