M9 first impressions...

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Thorsen,

 

Kelly Preston is not John Travolta's wife? Was she there also for the Scientology Church?

 

Just "discovered" the 35mm Nokton f/1.2 today, looks as an interesting lens ;-) especially for lager scenes with focus on distances one to two meters away and loads of blurred background.

 

I'm wondering how small crops those are with the "fringing" or what you did to them (if anything) in terms of adjusting. I only looked at the EXIF of the first and thought they were both 50/1.4.

 

Yes, Kelly is wife of Travolta and it was a Church of Scientology charity event I shot. He was't within camera view - at least not officially (he was shaved bald for a movie they did in Paris).

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I BTW, I started my Leica M9 diary page last night here:

MY ONGOING LEICA M9 DIARY - OCTOBER 2009

for one to pass the time.

 

 

Steve, on you 100% crop of the lampost, I see a great deal of cyan fringing. Is this in the RAW file or just the jpeg?

 

One other Q: what sort of sharpening are you doing on the M9 compared to the M8?

 

Cheers,

 

- N.

[ArtZ]

Just "discovered" the 35mm Nokton f/1.2 today, looks as an interesting lens ;-) especially for lager scenes with focus on distances one to two meters away and loads of blurred background.

 

I'm wondering how small crops those are with the "fringing" or what you did to them (if anything) in terms of adjusting. I only looked at the EXIF of the first and thought they were both 50/1.4.

 

Yes, Kelly is wife of Travolta and it was a Church of Scientology charity event I shot. He was't within camera view - at least not officially (he was shaved bald for a movie they did in Paris).

 

 

Thanks for your imput, Thorsen.

 

Yes, the CV Nokton 35/1.2 it's a very nice lens on the M8. My first copy was lost on the mail and, after a few months, I missed so much I decided to get a new one!

 

The crops are at 100% and they correspond to 25% (3916/960 pixels) of the whole/original image. I did nothing to the images. No post-processing or special adjusting. In fact, I was playing with a friend with three M8 and some lenses. I took the first picture (without really focusing the subjetc) because I was testing the "INFO" button and the Histogramme. When we saw the result (the blue thing) we took some other pictures with other lenses and we got similar results.

 

 

I get, ocasionally, some lens "fringing" with the ZM Biogon 28/2.8 but it's a completely different thing of what you can see here and happens in different situations (ie: dark roof/blue sky, tree leaves/sky... but with no blooming effect). I even can get some blue/purple fringing on my Canons (dSLR) because of the lenses... which is very similar to the one I get occasionally with the ZM Biogon 28/2.8.

[manolo]

Carsten, I think that this is a really good test to do. Take the exact same part of the 9 sensor that corresponds with all of the 8; same iso, lens, light etc... and pixel pip to the end. Tripod and all.

 

another source of the smooth M9 file might be noice reduction before the raw file. (at least I hope so as this is correctable in filmware upgrade)

 

Regards,Geronimo

 

Steve, I don't have an M9 yet, but I am curious about this comment, and the possible reasons for it. Unlike a previous poster, I do think that comparing the M8 and M9 at the pixel level can be interesting, although of course not for final print reasons. Rather, they have the same pixel pitch, and the sensors are apparently strongly related, so one might expect the same look from 100% crops from the middle of the picture. If after doing this, the images have a different look, then of course I would like to know why.

 

The sensor cover is thicker, and has a stronger IR filter this time. I believe the thicknesses are 0.5mm and 0.8mm respectively. I wonder if this could be a reason.

[manolo]

Thorsen, I visited the Aarhus City Hall on my honeymoon as I was very much into the modern architects in your area after college. It gave me good memories, I remember a lot of cool details in that building like a clock, wooden chairs & walls etc... was the architect Asplund???

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Thorsen, I visited the Aarhus City Hall on my honeymoon as I was very much into the modern architects in your area after college. It gave me good memories, I remember a lot of cool details in that building like a clock, wooden chairs & walls etc... was the architect Asplund???

 

I've shot the whole thing top to bottom

It was later famed architect Arne Jacobsen who was the lead architect together with less known Møller (not C F Møller who did the Aarhus University at the same time). It was his first big assignment apart from some summer houses and a beach restaurant and a smaller theater (all famous now). He later did the SAS Hotel in Copenhagen, loads of chairs and furniture (The Egg and other). His final work was the Danish Naional Bank which happen to have the same marble facade as the Aarhus City Hall.

 

They hired the even younger architect Wegner to design the furniture (all lamps, furniture, ashtrays, carpets, etc was made for the building). It was his first assignment straight from school, and he too is famous today for the China Chair and many other Wegner chairs (JFK sat in one of them).

 

The incredible part was that they managed to build the city hall despite the ongoing World War II. They got wood and other materials - the marble was gotten from Norway, stones for the entrance hall floor from Italy and all. Almost an act of resistance movement!

 

In the basement there's walls with paintings of african women. During the war they had a flight alarm central there and they had so little to do so they painted drawings on the walls. It's storage today, but he paintings are still there.

 

Anyway, slightly OT thought it's been documented with a Leica