shootinglulu Posted March 28, 2017 Share #21 Posted March 28, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) 50 is the FL I return to the most..I like faces and focusing the camera on emotional moments and I think the 50 can do that pretty welI. I like your photography btw. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Al_OOF Posted March 28, 2017 Share #22 Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) Three different 50 mm. All at maximum aperture. Summilux pre ASPH Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited March 28, 2017 by Al_OOF 12 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3243696'>More sharing options...
Al_OOF Posted March 28, 2017 Share #23 Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) Summilux ASPH Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited March 28, 2017 by Al_OOF 15 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3243698'>More sharing options...
Al_OOF Posted March 28, 2017 Share #24 Posted March 28, 2017 And Summicron Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 17 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3243699'>More sharing options...
Popular Post J.S Posted March 28, 2017 Popular Post Share #25 Posted March 28, 2017 Summilux Asph, huge DOF look, focussed at infinity. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 25 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3243801'>More sharing options...
J.S Posted March 28, 2017 Share #26 Posted March 28, 2017 Summilux Asph, wide open look, almost same scene. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 14 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3243809'>More sharing options...
goldchen96 Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share #27 Posted March 28, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you very much for your first contributions. Please keep it coming! 50mm actually feels a bit like a telephoto lens, doesn't it? Can also be "boring-y"somehow, lacking some dynamics? Is it actually more difficult to "successfully" fill the frame with a 35mm lens compared to a 50mm? Or does all of this always and solely depend on subject matter, perspective and the art of seeing "it" (as subjective as it might be sometimes)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldchen96 Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share #28 Posted March 28, 2017 @AI_OOF The pre ASPH Summilux renders beautifully, doesn't it? Quite different from the other two (the character of the lens). Nice shot. Is the difference always so pronounced (one stop wider open?) or ist it also quality of light and distances to subject/background? The Summicron seems a bit busy in comparison... Cheers J Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post colint544 Posted March 29, 2017 Popular Post Share #29 Posted March 29, 2017 A few recent shots around my home town of Glasgow - M Monochrom mk1, 50mm Summilux ASPH. Cheers! Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 78 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244035'>More sharing options...
colint544 Posted March 29, 2017 Share #30 Posted March 29, 2017 Thank you very much for your first contributions. Please keep it coming! 50mm actually feels a bit like a telephoto lens, doesn't it? Can also be "boring-y"somehow, lacking some dynamics? Is it actually more difficult to "successfully" fill the frame with a 35mm lens compared to a 50mm? Or does all of this always and solely depend on subject matter, perspective and the art of seeing "it" (as subjective as it might be sometimes)? Yes, the 50mm can feel almost like a telephoto. But it can also be used to include a lot of elements in the frame. I find the 50mm to be the most flexible focal length of all. Longer or wider than 50mm feel a bit more specialised to me, and a little more limited. I think it's because 50mm doesn't have any pronounced perspective effects, and just looks natural. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceVentura1986 Posted March 29, 2017 Share #31 Posted March 29, 2017 The diagonal of a FF sensor is 43mm. This is a completely straight ahead look. Anything wider will distort at the edges and anything narrower is telephoto and will compress an image. I noticed this when I moved from the M8 with a 35mm to apthe ME with a 50mm. The 50 felt just a bit tighter and compressed the image just a bit more. This is one of the reasons I've always flirted with the idea of buying an old Minolta Rokkor 40mm as it, along with the CV Nokton in 40, should be the lens nearest true normal of any Leica mount. Then again, I always return to the 50 Summicron because it is so versatile and it slight tlelphoto nature makes for a good portrait lens too. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelythisnameisfree Posted March 29, 2017 Share #32 Posted March 29, 2017 Yes, the 50mm can feel almost like a telephoto. But it can also be used to include a lot of elements in the frame. I find the 50mm to be the most flexible focal length of all. Longer or wider than 50mm feel a bit more specialised to me, and a little more limited. I think it's because 50mm doesn't have any pronounced perspective effects, and just looks natural.Totally agree and if Leica were to release a 45 or 50mm Q I'd be all over it. As it is I will make do with working my way through the 50mm m lenses. I've just traded in a summilux for a 50 apo so I'm hoping I'm done for a while 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_OOF Posted March 29, 2017 Share #33 Posted March 29, 2017 goldchen96, yes the pre ASPH Summilux renders beautifully but also the new ASPH (in my taste). I feel the Summilux family renders with more fineness of detail and a more pastel color, particularly at the maximum opening and especially the new ASPH that seems also more crisp. Differences are more pronunced at WO but also on the other apertures you can see something different, tough the light plays the main role and can sometimes, in different situations, lead to some misunderstanding. I don’t think, in my photographic point of view, that 50mm is boring. It's just more natural but may be that someone wish to see reality in a different perspective . Sometimes what you see so perfectly fills the frame, and the relationship between the foreground and background, that no other lens could be right (and you did not have time to change it). As I think in these two examples, always with 50 mm (excuse me if I am a bit intrusive with too many photos… ) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244242'>More sharing options...
Al_OOF Posted March 29, 2017 Share #34 Posted March 29, 2017 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244243'>More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted March 29, 2017 Share #35 Posted March 29, 2017 Heres one Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 7 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244283'>More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted March 29, 2017 Share #36 Posted March 29, 2017 One more shot in the dark Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244289'>More sharing options...
Joakim Posted March 29, 2017 Share #37 Posted March 29, 2017 Summilux ASPH and 0.95 Noctilux Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 16 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244299'>More sharing options...
uhoh7 Posted March 30, 2017 Share #38 Posted March 30, 2017 Big Wall by unoh7, M9 50cron v4 f/8 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnySeven Posted March 30, 2017 Share #39 Posted March 30, 2017 (edited) Some recent things I shot with my summicron canuck 50 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited March 30, 2017 by JohnnySeven 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/270708-nifty-fifty-please-share-some-50-mm-pictures/?do=findComment&comment=3244690'>More sharing options...
goldchen96 Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share #40 Posted March 31, 2017 Quote "I don’t think, in my photographic point of view, that 50mm is boring. It's just more natural but may be that someone wish to see reality in a different perspective . Sometimes what you see so perfectly fills the frame, and the relationship between the foreground and background, that no other lens could be right (and you did not have time to change it). As I think in these two examples, always with 50 mm" @AI_OOF: Thank you for the response. Yes, you are exactly right, I guess. I was just thinking aloud, as I am not a very accomplished theorist: It is the "normality" of the look probably that one may find appealing? The dynamics and brilliance of a photograph surely do not depend so much on the focal length, but more so on perspectice, composition, the activity in the frame and the relation of standpoint, forground, background and the different layers in the picture, right? That said, an interesting composition can of course be accomplished with any focal length. A photo can be percieved as "boring" or "well done" in any case just depending on the execution. So the thing is, I probably seem to tend to use the 50mm these days more as a "tele" lens, with lots of shallow DOF and OOF areas (see also post #37 by joakim), whereas in your post and many other brilliant street photos it somehow feels a bit more like a 35mm lens with hyperfokal settings, more DOF and including more "what's around" in the frame? And still, a certain field of view has a certain charakter, and I like the one produced by a 50mm (on FF) certainly quite a lot. Cheers J Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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