thighslapper Posted January 27, 2018 Share #41  Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) a nice Leica lady at Bruton Place this morning.... iso 3200  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 January 27, 2018 by thighslapper 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/280887-75-and-90mm-sl-lenses-will-arrive-in-february/?do=findComment&comment=3449202'>More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 Hi thighslapper, Take a look here 75 and 90mm SL lenses will arrive in February. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
thighslapper Posted January 27, 2018 Share #42  Posted January 27, 2018 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! 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/280887-75-and-90mm-sl-lenses-will-arrive-in-february/?do=findComment&comment=3449203'>More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted January 27, 2018 Share #43  Posted January 27, 2018 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/280887-75-and-90mm-sl-lenses-will-arrive-in-february/?do=findComment&comment=3449204'>More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted January 27, 2018 Share #44  Posted January 27, 2018 I'm not sure how useful these will be Scott ...... the weather here has been blustery and grey for weeks so this is the best I can do indoors....... all at 50 iso ... focus on the solitary pink orchid ....    They are interesting. I understand the weather problem, as we are having the same.  It's hard to tell distances in a telephoto image, but it looks like the extra narrow DOF that is claimed did a nice job of making a sort of pastel crayon sketch of the second of the two bronze gentlemen in Singapore at f/2.0. In your f/2.0 image, the things inside the room seemed all in focus, except for the carving on the nearest leg of the low table. The tree and foliage outside is not nearly as blurred in your shot as the background crowd is in the Singapore picture, and they both come into some level of clarity by f/4.0 and look like what you would expect from a 75-90 lens from /5.6 on up.   The fact that diffraction doesn't really cut things off until f/22 is similar to what I see with my 120-S Macro. It's nice to have all that DOF available if you want it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted January 27, 2018 Share #45  Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) I'll try and find something more suitable over the next few days. Sammy is useless as a model as he is more interested in sticks and squirrels than posing ......  The lens is a perfect size for the SL ...... it just looks and feels right ..... AF is fast and accurate enough to basically ignore.  I've always preferred 75 to 50 as a general use focal length and this lens looks like it has the ability to turn mundane subjects into really striking images. Edited January 27, 2018 by thighslapper 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted January 28, 2018 Share #46  Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) Here's an example of separation and bokeh with the distant elements just as much a part of the picture as the tidily separated foreground. From the Leica-Rumors twitterfeed (not my picture):  DUk2inkWkAAtiRS , on Flickr  So how do the new Summicrons handle this sort of deep scene (original taken with 50 Noctilux, but f-stop wasn't stated)? Will they have their own look for this? Edited January 28, 2018 by scott kirkpatrick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillbeers15 Posted January 28, 2018 Share #47 Â Posted January 28, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) Two more images from the APOSL75 wide open @F2: Â L1060684 by sillbeers15 Â L1060697 by sillbeers15 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistairm Posted February 1, 2018 Share #48  Posted February 1, 2018 I picked up my 75 today. The handling is lovely.... the lens feels "just right" on the camera. The focus ring on my copy has a "stiffer clutch" than on my other SL lenses (24-90, 90-280 and 50), which I find more accurate. Autofocus is not as quick as the zooms but in initial use is reasonably quick and locks first time. Vastly better than the 50, which is ponderous and especially so if it hunts through its range, which it is wont to do. Time will tell, but I think the 75 is quick enough that a hunt through the range will be a minor frustration, whereas on the 50 it's so slow that you are likely to lose the shot unless your subject is posing.   I wiil post some shots when I have taken a few more, but the initial impressions are very positive both in terms of ergonomics and IQ. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistairm Posted February 1, 2018 Share #49  Posted February 1, 2018 Forgive a couple of fairly mundane shots, as I'm currently recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon so can't do much photography at the moment, but here are a couple with the 75.  The cameras are f/5.6 and the guitar headstock is at f/2.     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! 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/280887-75-and-90mm-sl-lenses-will-arrive-in-february/?do=findComment&comment=3453102'>More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted February 2, 2018 Share #50  Posted February 2, 2018 The 90SL seems to be in shops now. I tested one briefly in Red Dot this afternoon. Testing is the wrong word - I put it on the SL and swung it around in the shop checking its focus speed for a couple of minutes. As one would expect it balanced well on the SL and felt comfortable. I took no serious shots, but I assume one can taken IQ for granted, though I am sure that in the right hands, managing depth of field well, it will produce superb portraits. Focus speed was fast and accurate, certainly fast enough for portrait work; I felt that it wasn't as fast as the 24-90, though I didn't have the latter to compare it with. In low light it occasionally shot off in the wrong direction before reversing to find focus, but it never hunted.  I was interested in getting this lens until recently, but after a long hard think, I had concluded that the IQ from the 90 is unlikely to be significantly distinctive from the 24-90, and despite the benefits of the extra stops, I would prefer the flexibility of the zoom. So I left the shop with a Thambar  - distinctive IQ, undoubtedly, and I suspect the challenge of making it work successfully will leave me a better photographer with a better understanding of light. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistairm Posted February 3, 2018 Share #51  Posted February 3, 2018 The 90SL seems to be in shops now. I tested one briefly in Red Dot this afternoon. Testing is the wrong word - I put it on the SL and swung it around in the shop checking its focus speed for a couple of minutes. As one would expect it balanced well on the SL and felt comfortable. I took no serious shots, but I assume one can taken IQ for granted, though I am sure that in the right hands, managing depth of field well, it will produce superb portraits. Focus speed was fast and accurate, certainly fast enough for portrait work; I felt that it wasn't as fast as the 24-90, though I didn't have the latter to compare it with. In low light it occasionally shot off in the wrong direction before reversing to find focus, but it never hunted.  I was interested in getting this lens until recently, but after a long hard think, I had concluded that the IQ from the 90 is unlikely to be significantly distinctive from the 24-90, and despite the benefits of the extra stops, I would prefer the flexibility of the zoom. So I left the shop with a Thambar  - distinctive IQ, undoubtedly, and I suspect the challenge of making it work successfully will leave me a better photographer with a better understanding of light.  Now that would be fun. I would love to try one. I reckon as you play with it you'll get a whole bunch of "flag for delete" but, as you get to know it, will produce some images which just blow you away and are truly works of art. Please make sure you share some of them with us! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted February 3, 2018 Share #52 Â Posted February 3, 2018 I'd prefer they didn't announce anything until it was ready to ship to dealers, personally. I don't need to know that a lens I want tomorrow is available in 13 months. I'm simple that way ... I'd rather know that the latest super whatsis lens is available now, and enjoy it tomorrow. Probably meant to influence the choice of customers for a certain system 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistairm Posted February 4, 2018 Share #53  Posted February 4, 2018 Here is one with the 75 at f/2.  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! 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/280887-75-and-90mm-sl-lenses-will-arrive-in-february/?do=findComment&comment=3454737'>More sharing options...
helged Posted February 4, 2018 Share #54 Â Posted February 4, 2018 Thanks for the examples provided! Anyone with more to show - particularly with foreground - focus zone - background a la Scott's post #46 above? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrp Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share #55  Posted February 13, 2018 Some samples & video review of the 90mm SL and 75mm M Summilux http://mattgranger.com/noctilux Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancook Posted February 16, 2018 Share #56  Posted February 16, 2018 (edited) 50 1.4 or 75 2.0?  That is the question  Something to complement my zooms, and I do have the 50mm 1.4 asph l-m on the m10  Thinking events, wedding, portraiture, maybe the 75mm is a good choice  I can use it with 35mm 1.4 on the M10 as second body Edited February 16, 2018 by dancook Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted February 16, 2018 Share #57  Posted February 16, 2018 (edited) From my recollection DOF wide open is about the same. I also recall that the design with a steeper fall-off in the 'in-focus' zone is present in all of these SL primes, so subject isolation should be very good.  The 75/2 on the SL handles and balances perfectly ... and I've always preferred the extra reach of the 75 over 50 anyway, even on the M.  Not being a pro and doing weddings I'm not sure how all this would pan out in your usage.  Dan ..... why not just do a Neil Williams* and buy everything ...... then sell the stuff you don't like .....  * he's now gone from the forum ..... he has forsaken cheap rubbishy Leicas for a Hasselblad H6D-100c instead...... Edited February 16, 2018 by thighslapper Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancook Posted February 16, 2018 Share #58  Posted February 16, 2018 From my recollection DOF wide open is about the same. I also recall that the design with a steeper fall-off in the 'in-focus' zone is present in all of these SL primes, so subject isolation should be very good.  The 75/2 on the SL handles and balances perfectly ... and I've always preferred the extra reach of the 75 over 50 anyway, even on the M.  Not being a pro and doing weddings I'm not sure how all this would pan out in your usage.  Dan ..... why not just do a Neil Williams* and buy everything ...... then sell the stuff you don't like .....  * he's now gone from the forum ..... he has forsaken cheap rubbishy Leicas for a Hasselblad H6D-100c instead......  I saw him in the Hasselblad forums when I was looking at information on the X1D - I can only hope to have so much cash...  I think the 75 will be a better choice.. everywhere is preorder though 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillbeers15 Posted February 16, 2018 Share #59 Â Posted February 16, 2018 I think the 75 will be a better choice.. everywhere is preorder though Exstock available in Singapore but only limited pieces. That was how I got my two weeks ago. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancook Posted February 16, 2018 Share #60 Â Posted February 16, 2018 Exstock available in Singapore but only limited pieces. That was how I got my two weeks ago. Â ordering now from reddot 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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