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A few more while I'm waiting :)

This time on the SL (type 601)

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Got the lens but unfortunately the rated "10" used lens was about an "8"....Image quality was beautiful though....But...Have to send it back, bummer.

 

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A new (to me) Summilux-SL 50mm, arrived yesterday. I had a portrait session planned for this morning: he wanted headshots to help him get into drama school.
SL2S

First image Summilux-SL 50mm @ f/1.4, ISO 100, no crop
Second image Apo-Summicron-SL 90mm, @ f/2, no crop
Obviously I had to cut down the lighting by a stop for the Summilux, and you can see the bigger nose in the 50mm!

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13 hours ago, LocalHero1953 said:

A new (to me) Summilux-SL 50mm, arrived yesterday. I had a portrait session planned for this morning: he wanted headshots to help him get into drama school.
SL2S

First image Summilux-SL 50mm @ f/1.4, ISO 100, no crop
Second image Apo-Summicron-SL 90mm, @ f/2, no crop
Obviously I had to cut down the lighting by a stop for the Summilux, and you can see the bigger nose in the 50mm!

 

Absolutely beautiful rendering with the SL50Lux. If one can accept the nose, that is. I can...

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10 minutes ago, helged said:

Absolutely beautiful rendering with the SL50Lux. If one can accept the mose, that is. I can...

I would probably avoid the lens for portraits as close as this, but for upper body it would be fine. And at f/1.4, this close, one can see that the eyes and lips are in focus, but quite a lot else is not. But I love the effect of a face emerging in startlingly sharp detail from a soft mist! It will take me a while to work out exactly when to use it and when not. 

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Sharing a drink with Dad. SL2-S and the 50 Lux SL, one of my fav lenses ❤️

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3 hours ago, LocalHero1953 said:

I would probably avoid the lens for portraits as close as this, but for upper body it would be fine. And at f/1.4, this close, one can see that the eyes and lips are in focus, but quite a lot else is not. But I love the effect of a face emerging in startlingly sharp detail from a soft mist! It will take me a while to work out exactly when to use it and when not. 

Smartphone generations might find the long-lens rendering a bit flat (and fattening), and prefer the closer perspective. It feels more intimate, and it's a closer match to what we see in the mirror.

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6 minutes ago, BernardC said:

Smartphone generations might find the long-lens rendering a bit flat (and fattening), and prefer the closer perspective. It feels more intimate, and it's a closer match to what we see in the mirror.

I want to see every last pore on the end of the nose and the exact tonality of every zit, which gets harder when you get close at f/1.4: I'm obsessive about getting DoF just right in portraits

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53 minutes ago, LocalHero1953 said:

I want to see every last pore on the end of the nose and the exact tonality of every zit, which gets harder when you get close at f/1.4: I'm obsessive about getting DoF just right in portraits

You need to try the Summilux-L at smaller stops to see how it holds-up.

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"I'd have won if I hadn't folded"

SL2S + Summilux-SL 50 f/5.6 ISO 5000.
First image with normal editing, but no denoise (which would affect appraisal of the lens's resolution detail). The background is darkened with a mask, and there is a linear gradient darkening the LHS. Cropped for height and slightly straightened.
Second image: after Lightroom AI denoising at 35%.

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SL2-S + Summilux-SL 50 @f/7.1, ISO 8000. Lightroom denoise applied at 35%.

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This illustrates another reason I wanted this lens. The same scene, but two different stories being told (neither of them to do with poker, which is just a metaphor in this play).
SL2S + Summilux-SL 50
The first image at f/1.4, ISO 320, no AI denoise. The young man has been screwed (figuratively) by the young woman.
The second image at f/6.3, ISO 6400. AI denoise applied at 35%. The moral contest is now between the young woman and the older man.

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It can be me, but I have the feeling that this lens really differentiates in the areas before the focus plane. Bokeh behind, all lenses have, but this is spectacular.

which is a pity, as I hoped i could go with a 75/2 or different portrait lens….

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