Thank you for the compliment, Peter.
I let Lightroom 6.3 operate on its defaults. It defaulted to the Adobe Standard profile, and all of these were processed that way. When I flip them to the embedded profile, the colors all shift to somewhat extreme saturations, particularly reds.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll shoot a couple of frames of the Xrite Color Checker and generate an SL profile with the Passport software, see how that differs.
BTW: I did some lens testing today too.
- I've verified to my satisfaction that the Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm is almost perfectly parfocal.
- I tested a modest batch of my M and R lenses casually to see how they performed against the 24-90 as reference:
24-90 zoom @ 24, 28, 35, 50, 75, 90 settings
Elmarit-R 19/2.8 v1
Elmarit-R 24/2.8
Elmar-M 24 ASPH
Summicron-R 35/2 v2
Summilux-R 50/1.4
Summicron-R 90/2
Summarit-M 75/2.4
Summilux 35/1.4 v2 (M)
They all work very well, with no corner smearing or edge weirdness, and the SL zoom keeps up with the primes in almost all cases. The zoom at 90mm is at its most challenged, particularly against the Summicron-R 90/2, at the corners and edges. But even there, by f/8, I'd be splitting hairs to say something bad about it. All the M and R lenses work at least acceptably, even wide open; the Elmarit-R 19 and Elmar-M 24 really should be stopped down to f/5.6 for improved corner results however.
G