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First Monochrom photo posted:

 

Monochrom 2.0/28 Summicron ASPH

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… buying screws and a drill tool form the home improvement market (do you call it that way in English?), I almost hit my head on that sign:

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shopping mall - caution by teknopunk.com, on Flickr

 

… while a young mother was out shopping:

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shopping mall - mother with baby in cart by teknopunk.com, on Flickr

 

… the usual shopping cart group shot ?

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shopping mall - carts by teknopunk.com, on Flickr

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M Monochrom 2/50

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Dirk -

The intent of this thread is to post images from the relativley new Leica Monochrom (note the lack of an E at the end of Monochrome, indicating which camera's use is intended).

 

Stuart, I'm not sure I understand your post. He has been posting Monochrom images.

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Canon 50/.95 + Mono:

 

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dreamlens - portrait by teknopunk.com, on Flickr

 

This is a very informative image and gives much insight in the differences between .95 Canon and .95 Leica. I would say the DOF / bokeh at .95 of the Canon is so special that it is not interesting anymore or vice versa

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Haha, nothing happened Stuart ;-)

 

Otto, the rendering in my image above shows a few thing, why I posted this:

- the out of focus highlights rendered here are very unique (not necessary pleasing, but definitely unique)

They have this unique shape though, caused mainly not by the Canon .95's properties but due to a very unique background in itself (several glass doors with direct bright light sources and many reflections in them).

Probably a Summilux ASPH would have rendered similar unnerving "artefacts" but in a more controlled way.

 

- the lens is veeeeeeery sharp and shows immense detail, where it is in focus (a 2:1 magnification in Lightroom reveals crisp and cleanly rendered eye details and a contrasty, crisp and razor sharp reflection in her eyes) The Canon .95, when properly adjusted is a surprisingly high performing lens - again, where it is in focus

 

- the Canon .95 (and many, many vintage lenses as well, which is, why I love them so much) do render the transition between sharp and unsharp image areas entirely different from modern lenses.

Whereas with a modern super fast lens the transition is rendered extremely abrupt, these vintage lenses have a beautiful gradual transition, which looks a lot more natural (it has a bit the character of large format lenses in this regard, where transitions gradually fade).

 

This of course is very difficult to see in such a small image, which without seeing the beautifully sharp detail around her eye here looks generally soft of bad (which is, where the reputation of the Canon .95 largely stems from - people, who base knowledge on tiny internet pics, that is ;-)

 

I really love this lens as a specialty lens and wouldn't want to give this away for any .95 Noctilux (monetary value aside). I dislike many modern lenses in their imaging and have a strong fascination for these old optics, as one might have guessed ;-)

 

Why I posted this in the Leica Mono thread opposed to the vintage lenses thread?

One of the very reasons, why I knew instantly, that the Mono is MY camera, when it was announced some months back is proven now.

 

The Mono indeed exposes more and more fine detail and characteristics of vintage lenses, that before didn't get resolved.

Now many, many lenses really surprise me, how much resolution they indeed have, how high performing they are and how beautifully different their rendering in true monochrome imaging is.

I absolutely love this sensor and wish Leica finds a way to fix the issues, that still surround this product.

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- the Canon .95 (and many, many vintage lenses as well, which is, why I love them so much) do render the transition between sharp and unsharp image areas entirely different from modern lenses.

 

Agreed, but what disturbs me is the not so nice transition between the unsharp and the very unsharp areas. This may sound meticulous, but if you take a closer look at the cheek in depth, you may see what I mean and it's this what makes the bokeh rude to me. At least in this capture, the left eye needs to be seen by a doctor. Using this lens on a RF camera is a wild guess. Maybe I would experiment with it on an M-240

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Didn't meet issues yet, but I agree with Jamie Roberts who said somewhere in this forum that the skintones are too dark. In my experience they are systematically 1 stop too dark and a yellow filter does not seem to do enough to compensate this. My next experiment will be a skylight filter, the KR 1.5

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