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Montbretia.A little offering to bring back the summer mood...
Something that caught my eye this morning. No idea what they are, they have come under the fence from next-door. A6500, 50mm Touit f2.8.
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Wow! That's unusual. Beam me up. Hope you didn't get probed by aliens, Barry. :ROTFL:
Wow! That's unusual. Beam me up. Hope you didn't get probed by aliens, Barry. :ROTFL:
Joe
Hi there Barry, on my monitor it shows quite a bit of a magenta hue paricularly in the upper corners of the image: did you perhaps use some kind of filter here ?Likewise picked up a new lens today...The 21mm Nokton f1.4 and have been testing it against my 21mm Loxia Distagon.
Unauthorised Parking - Voigtlander 21mm Nokton f1.4
Great! and a good test shot for checking detail and fringing.Picked up this very old Leitz 9cm Elmar-M recently for a song, worked OK on my 7ii.
Hi Bart, many thanks for pointing it out to me...I'm sure you are right, it wouldn't be the first time I screwed up the colour...I doubt it will be the last time either...For speed I used a sooc jpg without a profile with this particular image, that didn't help matters.Hi there Barry, on my monitor it shows quite a bit of a magenta hue paricularly in the upper corners of the image: did you perhaps use some kind of filter here ?
Anyway, I'm very pleased with my 21/1.4 copy and together with the 65/2.0 it forms my favourite walk-around combo.
Looking forward to your verdict
Kind regards.
I have the Loxia 25mm and yes, the PocketPano grip makes all the difference for fit & removal. Not the best lens ergonomically-speaking but I have so far found its performance to be absolutely superb. The way things are going at the moment points to my M lenses being reserved for use on my M7 and MP.Zeiss Loxia 21mm f2.8
Pro's
52mm filter thread is common throughout the Loxia range which could be an advantage to some.
Lightweight (caps front and rear with hood and 52mm B+W Clear filter = 434g, weighed by myself).
Small and compact, easy to fit in a camera bag taking up less space (Than Nokton) with reversed hood...Both hoods detach and reverse in on themselves for easy storage.
Slightly wider AoV than the Nokton (This maybe a negative to others though).
Blue rubber seal gasket between lens and camera body offers some protection against the rain.
Negs
More awkward/fiddlier to attach the hood than the Nokton (Although my Loxia 25mm Hood for whatever reason seems less problematic).
I personally don't like having the aperture ring so close to the lens mount.
I personally don't like the fine grooved (traps dirt) focus ring compared to the Noktons scalloped focus ring (Scalloped ring is easier to focus with gloves on in the cold).
Attaching/Detaching the lens to the camera, not much to grab hold of that doesn't rotate (But improved with a PocketPano lens grip)...it's easy to nudge off of your default aperture setting.
Slow - f2.8 is 2 stops slower than f1.4 Nokton.
It's a faff removing the lens to set a click-less aperture ring using an accessory key (which can easily get lost) if changing over from stills to making videos or vice versa.
Short distance lens rotational focus throw.