While the rest of you have been having fun with your new GH1s and 20/1.7s :angel: I've been continuing to experiment with the 50/1.1 Voigtlander on the G1. I'm just now starting to get through a huge batch of pictures I shot two weekends ago of onlookers at the Fashion Week runway show; have picked a few to show here.
[One thing I like about photographing this event is that since everybody is snapping photos of each other with their digicams and phones anyway, and since everybody has gone to great lengths to look fabulous, usually nobody minds being photographed... in fact, usually the problem is to get the shot before they start posing for you!]
Note that this isn't intended as a serious "test" of the lens -- just some examples to show what shots with this combo look like under these types of conditions (although at least I tried to pick ones that had good focus and reasonably good exposure.) I think we all know by now that 3200 is pushing your luck with the G1, although I usually find the results at least tolerable as long as I don't underexpose
at all; once you go even slightly under, the shadow areas start getting hazy and streaky.
I ran the screen-size versions through Noise Ninja to see if it would help with this, but it really didn't... it did smooth out color noise pretty well, but I don't know if it's a big enough advantage to be worth the bother of doing routinely. Anyway, here are the pics:
This one is at ISO 1250:
This one is at ISO 2500;
All from here on at ISO 3200:
Model gets a hug from her mom. I had to go to 1/50 for this one, so sharpness is compromised a bit by motion blur: