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Another thing about lenses is the flares, which are far more than just bloom. For example, I love the way that zooms have lots of elements to their flares. -
I've sort of been waiting for my adapters to arrive to shoot the next round of tests, but I figured that sharing some early impressions might be useful and help me organise my thoughts a bit too. I shot my first round of the test quite poorly, so images have different exposures etc, which is why I wasn't sharing them before, but there are some interesting things to note from some of the different lenses. The 14mm F2.5 is sharp from edge to edge and has relatively deep DoF, so this is a reference. The Takumar 35mm F3.5 is sharp in the middle and still relatively deep DoF but has significant "zoom" radial blur on the edges. ..as does the Cosmicar 12.5mm F1.9.. The TTartisans 17mm F1.4 has a lot of blooming when wide open (but is clean from F2 onwards) and the Yashica 28mm F2.8 has a lot of blooming when wide open too, although the blooming seems to be a lot larger (with the light from brighter areas being distributed a lot further away in the image than with the 17/1.4) The blur on the edges of the Yashica also seems to have a lot of colour separation too: unlike the TTartisans: or Cosmicar: The Mir-1b 37mm F2.8 is all over the place, reminding me that I have never liked it and never saw what others saw in it: The Helios is about as you'd expect - sharp in the middle but edges that are hype-worthy despite essentially being a one-trick pony: (Note that this is the Helios 44M, not the 44-2. I have the 44-2 and it's easily one of the worst lenses I own, with blooming far in excess of anything I included in this test. It sits in a drawer and stays there.) In contrast to the Helios, the Takumar 55mm F1.8 is much cleaner (bearing in mind this is a shallow DoF image and I'm standing at an angle compared to the fence so the edge softness is likely to be partly the shallow DoF) : The Voigt 42.5mm F0.95 is softer in the middle but has cleaner edges: and the TTartisans 50mm F1.2 doesn't have the blooming of the Voigt, but might not be sharper as bloom and sharpness are independent attributes: but the 12-35mm F2.8 makes all of these look positively vintage: Obviously the other lenses can be stopped down to potentially be as sharp as this is, but I shot all these wide open to learn more about aesthetics, not to perform a technical test, because that's what MTF charts are for. I'd like to say that I can draw some conclusions from this test but realistically it's too early. I do have some impressions though. I suspect I don't like the lenses that have too much bloom. I bought a Tiffen Black Promist 1/8 and shot with it on the 12-35mm and ended up not liking the images in post, and some of these lenses are a lot more bloom-y than the BPM. The purpose of using any lenses other than my AF set (9/1.7 and 14/2.5 and 12-35/2.8 and 14-140/3.5-5.6) is to get shallow DoF or DoF-related things (e.g. oval bokeh from anamorphics) which are essentially the only things you can't apply in post. I have thought before that I don't really like colour separation, like the red halation from film or CA, but the example shots from Attack on London and also from the wide angle adapter don't seem that objectionable, so maybe I'm changing my mind about this? One thing that came out of this test was how much I like the Tokina 28-70mm F3.5-4.5 zoom. It has a vintage flavour for sure, but doesn't seem to be too degraded. I am really looking forward to testing the wide angle adapter and 1.25x anamorphic adapter on this lens, as I suspect those adapters will be limited to around F2.8 anyway, so trading off the flexibility of a zoom for only one extra stop doesn't seem that worthwhile in that configuration. The only lens not yet mentioned is the 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 kit zoom, which in this situation isn't that different from the 12-35mm F2.8. The next test I'll shoot will have significant depth of field, so I can see things like bokeh shapes and rendering (e.g. swirly vs cats-eyes vs not), and I'll have to work out some way to expose all the images the same (or use the GH7 and correct in post) as exposure makes a difference perceptually. I just wish my adapters would get here sooner!
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I didn’t actually but did same sensor cameras which would have been D3/D700 or something of that era because I was all Nikon back then. I am getting curious about the Sigma BF now…but must resist, must resist, must resist… -
I think they saw the high prices the previous RX1 models go for after 10 or more years. As for a electronic tech goes, the RX1 line has held up like no other tech out there, maybe only surpassed by the Digital Bolex videocam and the Fujifil X100 line in this regard. Other than those two outliers, I can't find any other old or very old digital cameras that still garner such high prices relative to their age. So Sony saw that and the recent compact camera fad and thought that they were leaving a ton of cash on the table. -
Just out of curiosity, did you by any chance ever shoot with the older Nikon DF? Seems it was a banger for stills.
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