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This is my first post, ever, on a camera forum with a photo so please be kind  Very heavily cropped and taken with R 80-200 f4 but I still kind of like it. As I am new I would appreciate if someone could approve this post so I can have posting restrictions lifted. Thank you.

 

 

Hi, Greg, I like your picture and the black and white digital noise almost looks like film grain and adds a pleasant grittiness.

 

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Pete.

[caissa]

Whereas all of the above are 50mm lenses, they are actually very different:

 

1) SL 50mm f/1.4: native SL, autofocus; large and heavy

 

2) APO Summicron-M 50mm f/2: as close to perfectly corrected as one can get; tiny and light

 

3) Noctilux 50mm f/0.95: Not merely high light gathering capability (for availbable light photography), but esprecially shallow depth of field and very special rendering wide open. It has porbaly the best bokeh of all lenses I know of.

 

The first question is whether you need/want AF. The second may be if you can live with f/2.0; than the APO Summicron is a real joy. If you just want an extra stop for low light and don't need AF, than consider the Summilux 50mm f/1.4. It is very sharp stopped down, but gives you f/1.4 (and a nice 3D separation wide open btw). It is also an amazingly small lens. The Noctilux, however, is a very special lens. Most people use it for shallow DOF (in the daytime with ND filters). It is famous for its unique bokeh. Almost every picture I took with the Noctilux (when using EVF) was a keeper; the pictures somehow touch you. It really shines at low ĺight and wide open. Foucssing with the M requires quite some practice, but with the SL it is no problem. Of course, sharpness wide open is far away from the APO Summicron-M 50mm.

 

If you wnat AF, than go for the SL 50mm f/1.4. Optically the latter is excellent. The AF is slow wide open, though. Therfore I think the Summilux-M 50mm could be a very good compromise for you: Low light (f/1.4), very good optically (stopped down), small and light.

 

The SL50 and the Apo50 are extremely close in IQ, some would even say equal. Although one is officially apo and the other is not - maybe just a marketing gimmick to justify the price difference ? So for some the SL50 is clearly the more reasonable choice.

After all there is a perfect f 1.4 if needed. And AF is always faster than MF - apart from usage of some rare M specialists. But I have unfortunately never been witness of this.

 

But it is certainly overkill to have both expensive lenses in the bag. If I do not use the SL50 then I refer to the humble Summicron50. It is also very close in quality, has delivered excellent results over many years in often difficult circumstances and is easily replaceable. From f 4.0 any (big) difference is hard to detect from images with the Apo50. Give it a try and look for the differences. (Maybe in the future at higher resolutions it will be different.)

[gregdear007]

Nice image, Greg. Converting to B&W eases the graininess from the crop. Lovely.

 

 

Thank you. I am still learning how to effectively use my R lenses on the SL but I am enjoying the experience.

[gregdear007]

Hi, Greg, I like your picture and the black and white digital noise almost looks like film grain and adds a pleasant grittiness.

 

With respect to posting restrictions there are no restrictions to be lifted.  All members are allowed to post pictures up to 500 kB per post but if you choose to pay a subscription fee to become a Premium Member then you're allowed to post up to 1 MB per post.

 

Pete.

 

 

Thank you Pete. 

 

I am still learning the camera but enjoying it very much. I like the look of grain and the SL's sensor IMO has a pleasant film look to it, similar to the 1DS MKII. With my M and R adapters the SL is proving to be the digital camera I always wanted. 

 

Greg

[HeinzX]

Snowstorm in the night - with 90/280 and ISO 6400.

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- pommersches winterlicht - by Timothy P. Icture, auf Flickr

 

SL, 90-280

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Summilux-SL 50 at f/1.4

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Summilux-SL 50 

 

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Summicron 35 IV

 

 

 

 

SL with 50/1.1 7Artisan!! [emoji6]

 

 

 

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[ropo54]

Arvin:

I particularly love that 1st shot (woman with baby)!  The 7Artisans shot looks very artsy in a nice way, as well.

 

Rob

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SL 24-90 >> SL+24-90 >> ISO 500 > 25mm > f/4.0 > 0,3 sec

Handheld!

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SL 24-90 >> SL+24-90 >> ISO 500 > 25mm > f/4.0 > 0,3 sec

Handheld!

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Arvin:

I particularly love that 1st shot (woman with baby)! The 7Artisans shot looks very artsy in a nice way, as well.

 

Rob

Thanks Rob. It was my son AJ and wife Cristie.

 

In regards to the 7artisan’s photo, it’s a interesting lens and very cheap.

 

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[Tina Manley]

Daniel, Syrian refugee from Hamas

Tripoli Education Center

Tripoli, Lebanon

Leica SL, 24-90

 

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Green leaves in snow - SL and 24/90

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Newstead Abbey ...... spent a day there but just came back with photos of cutlery and bits and pieces ... decorated for xmas but it all looked just a bit too tacky and wider shots were boring. 24-90. 

 

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A pink jug ...... you can tell I was getting desperate .....

 

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[vikasmg]

This is my first post, ever, on a camera forum with a photo so please be kind  Very heavily cropped and taken with R 80-200 f4 but I still kind of like it. As I am new I would appreciate if someone could approve this post so I can have posting restrictions lifted. Thank you.

 

bird2.jpg

Very nice indeed.

 

- Vikas

[vikasmg]

Rachel, Syrian refugee from Aleppo

Kab Elias Education Center

Kab Elias, Lebanon

This is a crop from a much larger photo of the classroom.

Leica SL, 24-90

Very good - a early good image of a beautiful subject.

 

- Vikas

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[vikasmg]

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I love the colors in the blue one!

 

- Vikas