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Cindy and Bob, thank you for your friendly comments,.Karl,
I really love the pictures, especially your riverside capture which paints the wonderful pastel colors of the distant buildings in contrast to sharp solid tones of the people on the pathway.
I am a bit intrigued by the pictures overall as the CV Nokton 40 is not known for always having a great mid to far distance, out-of-focus bokeh. None of your pictures shows the harshness that it can at times demonstrate. Have you noticed any of this in other captures? Personally I love the size and feel of the lens and do not mind editing out the pictures which have the harsh somewhat frenetic fade in focus in order to get its speed and sharp sharp imaging in focus.
I guess the question is whether you feel that the G1 is somewhat more forgiving of this lens in the way it draws an image?
Thanks,
Bob
Excellent Carl, and what an enticing combination.I have a lot of fun with my new combination G1 with Novoflex adapter and CV Nokton 1,4/40. This lens fits ideal with G1: small and fast! Together with the upcoming Pana 20mm it will be a wonderfull lightweight camera. Here some examples:
Oh no :angry: Just what I needed. Yet another reason to buy the G1 and the Nokton. I suspected that this would be a killer combo, and your photos confirm that.I have a lot of fun with my new combination G1 with Novoflex adapter and CV Nokton 1,4/40. This lens fits ideal with G1: small and fast!
Karl
Hi Brian- Silkypix is an excellent converter, I used it exclusively till moving to Raw Developer for the M8 and just liking it's output for other's as well. Your conversions with Qimage looked great, I hadn't heard of it before. As to the G1 JPGs, I would suspect that the small pixel size from 12 million on a reduced size sensor would lead to increased noise, and perhaps they apply too much reduction on in camera JPGs. How is the noise in Raw files, NR off, at Iso 800 and up? best....PeterHi Peter, it's interesting that Panasonic use Silkypix as there RAW converter - so the jpeg engine (Venus IV?) will likely be producing a completely different image to one created from RAW.
I do think that Silkypix has quite a good NR scheme - but I now prefer to use Qimage Studio which has very little NR - I feel the same way about NR, don't like plastic look... RAW is the way to go IMHO... unlike the Oly E-System cams which have a superb JPEG engine built in.
Kind Regards
Brian