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9 hours ago, Ray Vonn said:

Might be just me but the Summarit seems to render a bit (but not 100%) like a Zeiss lens with those colours?

Maybe, I don’t really know. I only have one Zeiss lens (the 21mm) and I haven’t compared them. 
 

I also have a CV35/1.7 and compared to the Summarit that lens is sharper, has much less field curvature (or distortion I’m not sure which) and much more vignetting

 

The colours in this are very M9 made up in that the red building on the left isn’t such a deep shade of red in real life and iirc the blue building is less aqua coloured

 

180 deg from where I stood to take this is the sea, so the light there can play out very differently on different days

 

All that said, I tend to find that I often favour a cooler WB on my m9 edits, and I’m led to believe that Zeiss rendering is cooler than Leica’s so perhaps that’s what your noticing?

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1 hour ago, Adam Bonn said:

Maybe, I don’t really know. I only have one Zeiss lens (the 21mm) and I haven’t compared them. 
 

I also have a CV35/1.7 and compared to the Summarit that lens is sharper, has much less field curvature (or distortion I’m not sure which) and much more vignetting

 

The colours in this are very M9 made up in that the red building on the left isn’t such a deep shade of red in real life and iirc the blue building is less aqua coloured

 

180 deg from where I stood to take this is the sea, so the light there can play out very differently on different days

 

All that said, I tend to find that I often favour a cooler WB on my m9 edits, and I’m led to believe that Zeiss rendering is cooler than Leica’s so perhaps that’s what your noticing?

Yes it could be the M9, I just noticed how the colours were generally a bit more punchy. I do like that aspect of the Zeiss lenses which made them, or at least I thought made them, differ from Leica lenses.

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1 hour ago, Ray Vonn said:

Yes it could be the M9, I just noticed how the colours were generally a bit more punchy

 

here's some examples! (just screen grabs this time)

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This was shot at the same time (May 2019) as my OP and with the summarit (fun fact: bar WB and perspective correction 🙄 this is DNG - JPG zero edits!)

 

Next we have the same scene (more or less) but shot in Dec 2020, but with the 35mm 1.7 Ultron

 

 

Now as well as being different lenses, we have different years, and different times of the year. 

 

and another thing... these buildings face the sea.. like maybe 70 meters from the water. The sea is the north Atlantic. It can be harsh... I wonder if the biggest difference is not just the lenses but that in the second shot, the building has had an extra 18months of wear and tear thrown at it by the sea!

 

and here's two more shots from Dec2020 (I thought I might have corresponding images from the May2019 visit, but no, still sod it - I'll post these anyway)

 

 

 

So what's the take away from this?

 

Well pretty much zilch really!! 

 

  • Two sets of photos taken 18 months apart are no comparison at all

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  • Whatever the lens I really am a fan of the M9 rendering (OMMV)

 

1 hour ago, Ray Vonn said:

I do like that aspect of the Zeiss lenses which made them, or at least I thought made them, differ from Leica lenses.

 

Last Monday I bought my second Zeiss lens, (which isn't here yet, tracking says Tuesday) so in the fullness of time I might have more of an opinion on  Zeiss/Leica rendering (not that anyone else need care to hear it of course!)

 

What a good excuse this has been to post several M9 pics at once 🙂 

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19 minutes ago, Cobram said:

M9 rendering is special.

it is.

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But the other digital M (the one M9 shooters love to hate 🤣) isn't so completely different as some folks think! (this is late Dec2020, so again from a different time, also a different camera - but the same CV35 though!)

 

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editing them side by side (and remember they're not shot at the same time) we can get the look quite close

 

 

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1 hour ago, Adam Bonn said:

Last Monday I bought my second Zeiss lens, (which isn't here yet, tracking says Tuesday) so in the fullness of time I might have more of an opinion on  Zeiss/Leica rendering (not that anyone else need care to hear it of course!)

I look forward to that, I’m about 90% sure your conclusions will generally be the same as mine.

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12 minutes ago, Ray Vonn said:

I look forward to that, I’m about 90% sure your conclusions will generally be the same as mine.

Thanks, I'm looking forward to it too!

I just need lockdown to ease so that I'm allowed out further than the shadow of my building !!!

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M-E 220 with J8/I22 hybrid. 

 

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One from yesterday's exercise walk, M9 21mm Elmarit.

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M9 with Voigtlander Nokton 50mm 1.5 II @F5.6 

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M9 - APO 90f2.0 at f5.6/ This is so much richer than the sane thing from the Sony A7r and Zeiss 135

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M9P + Zeiss Planar 50mm F2

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10 hours ago, billh said:

M9 - APO 90f2.0 at f5.6/ This is so much richer than the sane thing from the Sony A7r and Zeiss 135

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It would be nice if we had the other image of which you speak so that we could make a judgement, wouldn't it?

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6 hours ago, boojum said:

It would be nice if we had the other image of which you speak so that we could make a judgement, wouldn't it?

I think, I could see some IR issues. My M-E exhibits it from time to time. 

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M-E with CV CS 21/4.

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M9P, 90 f2.8 at f5.6

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M9P, 90 f2.8 at f5.6

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M9P + Zeiss Planar 50mm F2, backlight,

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