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Prize, in English, but we all knew what you meant. ;)

 

Why don't you post a pic for us to guess?

 

Thank you! ;)

 

Ok, here we go... a very easy one (I don't have many pictures here with me)

 

My niece... just before getting engaged for always (who knows!) She looks terrified, doesn´t she?

 

Wide opened and you have two crops at 100%... Easy!

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Something really extrange happened. Both crops are 243.9 Kb and 242.1Kb but the size here are 51.6Kb and 46.1Kb respectively. Quality is awfull. Do you know what happened?

 

I have tried to upload them again hereunder:

 

Update: Now they're the good size.

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Cropped or full frame camera?

 

M8 (1.33x croped camera). ISO 320, 1/45"

 

Hint: The scene happens in the afternoon, in a dark rainy day, at Chatenay-Malabry Town Hall and light is terrible. This shot had to be taken (and was taken) very quickly (no time to tune focus and/or change settings) otherwise it would have been lost.

 

PS: And those who knows this picture, obviously, they're not entitled to participate ;)

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Thanks. I think of an asph lens as well but i hesitate between 50/1.4 and 35/1.4. With film i would say 50/1.4. With the R-D1 35/1.4 but with the M8, i'm not sure. Given the shallow DoF at short distance (about 10cm with a 50 i guess) i will choose the 35/1.4 but kudos to you if you did it with the 50.

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... but I also wouldn't be surprised if it were the 35 Summilux Asph.

 

Assuming it was film, that would have been my second guess :). However, now that we have some more information (M8, so it is cropped), I'd say the lens was probably even wider than 35mm. I change my vote to the Summicron 28 ASPH.

 

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Assuming it was film, that would have been my second guess :). However, now that we have some more information (M8, so it is cropped), I'd say the lens was probably even wider than 35mm. I change my vote to the Summicron 28 ASPH.

 

Andy

 

 

If it were film, my guess would be the 50 'Lux Asph., but I understood it was the M8 at the outset, so my guess remains the 35 'Lux Asph.

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...As I don't think that ArtZ is 2,20 m tall nor used a chair for the shot...

 

I'm just 1M89 (6'3") Sorry :(

 

(but I'm still groing up!) :D

 

Honestly, when I posted this picture I would never expected you'll go from 28mm to 75mm. I thought it will be easier to find out.

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

And the winner(s) is(are)...

 

The answer tomorrow! :p

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I join NB23 in guessing a 50 pre asph.

Maybe a Lux 50 open, the summarit I don't know enough

- Or Noctilux???, maybe at 1,2 - 1,4?

 

BTW NB23,

great Lux 21 shots !!!

(I was thinking about a Lux24, but you made the decision now much harder for me)

 

Regards

rolu

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First I thought a 35 'Lux. But not ASPH. If it is, there's certainly nothing harsh or clinical about it, as is sometimes claimed for this lens! Surely not a 50 pre-ASPH again. Back to the 35. OK, 35 pre-ASPH 'cron wide open.

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50 f/1.4 ASPH for ArtZ' bride.

 

The "perspective" (yeah, I know) looks short-tele-ish, but not as much as a 75 would show, IMHO. Bokeh is bright-ring in the foreground (see pen handle reflections) - the 50 'lux pre-ASPH would show bright-rings in background, if any, and be softer at a wide aperture near the frame edge (eyes).

 

Assuming a Leica lens - I just don't know the signatures of Noktons and Planars enough to rule them in or out. Not the 1.5 Sonnar, though.

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Hello World!

 

It's time to reveal the secret. Some of you have been very close to but nobody really hit it.

 

It's an aspherical lens, it's a 50mm lens at 1:1.5... it's a CV Nokton 50/1.5 ASPH.

 

I thought you will find it out because I've claimed here many times (even in the last few days) the Nokton 50/1.5 is my favorite lens for portraits on the M8.

 

I bought this lens in 2007 following Sean Reid advice. I haven't regret it a single second. As I don't use much 50mm focal on the M8, I have only a Summicron-M 50 and the Nokton. The Summilux-M 50 ASPH is a great lens but for a portrait taken with a M8... I still prefer the Nokton. ;)

 

Next...

 

:D

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