M240: It's Not the Color - The Thing That Seems Most Different to Me

[skimmel]

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I did not see any differences in out of focus areas. But I can say, that the "look" of overexposed areas in analog pictures is very different from digital pictures. So it may be, that there are differences between different sensors, but I think they are little.

 

I could rent the M240 from a dealer for half an hour.

 

Elmar

 

Thank you! This is very helpful. Suggests that there really isn't much difference here and it's just selective viewing of images on my part.

[01af]

... and because I stopped the Summilux-M 50 mm Asph down. When you do this, background with highlights immediately gets busy ...

Please note that stopping down a lens usually will lead to a less blurred background but also to a smoother bokeh.

[don daniel]

Please note that stopping down a lens usually will lead to a less blurred background but also to a smoother bokeh.

 

Not with the Summilux 50 asph. in my opinion. If you use it open you'll get the smoothest bokeh because only then apertute blades are round. Just compare the three pictures here:

 

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/2412018-post163.html

 

What concerns the blown-out highlights. Transition to the well exposed parts becomes ugly when you pull down the highlights in Lightroom too far.

[lct]

Yes some OoFs are harsher at slower apertures. That of the 50/1.4 asph is indeed a good example around f/2.8. Better shoot at f/1.4 bokeh wise or choose another 50.

[Lindolfi]

Yes some OoFs are harsher at slower apertures. That of the 50/1.4 asph is indeed a good example around f/2.8. Better shoot at f/1.4 bokeh wise or choose another 50.

 

That's also my experience. In some older lenses, the aperture remains almost perfectly round, with more blades, when closing down, which is beneficial for the bokeh, I feel.

[01af]

... because only then aperture blades are round. Just compare the three pictures here: ...

I don't see bad bokeh here—just different degrees of background blur. And in the stopped-down picture, the aperture was stopped down way too far ... I guess it's f/4 or f/4.8.

 

I do agree, however, that the Summilux-M 50 mm Asph in particular has a terrible rendition of individual out-of-focus highlights at medium apertures. In some cases, this can ruin an otherwise perfect bokeh indeed. I'd say any other 50 mm lens is better, in this regard, than the Summilux Asph.

[don daniel]

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I only had few seconds of time for each of eight men. So I took about two or three pictures of each of them, one picture fully open, the next one slightly stopped down and a third one stopped down to between 5.6 and 8. Nearly everyone with aperture 1.4 was out of focus, because I couldn't nail focus on the eyes. I need more time to be able to work precisely. With a slower lens or with a ND filtre and more time it would have been easier to achieve smoother highlights in such a situation. But a 90mm lens would have been perfect too.