M9 + 35mm Lux Asph Picture

What's with the funky bokeh in this photo. I've seen it in several photos from the M9 so far. Does this lens normally have this kind of bokeh?
 
Aperture priority. I have a few other shots but not taken in good situation so will me misleading. A few impressions :
- 1250 very clean
- 2500 decent and usable, loss of sharpness might be significant though. -
- there is potentially a 2 stops gain vs M8 unless you are after perfection. And using the 35mm Lux Asph instead of 24mm Elmarit I will get a lot more speed for low light.
- the lens manual selection menu is a wonderful addition and works perfect.
- with lens detection off, there is a lot of vignetting at F1.4.
- as for the bokeh, I don't know, never seen how it looked on FF.
- skin tones much improved. Out of camera DNG more punchy in terms of colors.
- shutter noise, better than M8 but not that much.
- exposure compensation can be changed by turning wheel and without half pressing the shutter. It exp comp interval is shown in the viewfinder.
 
yanidel said:
- with lens detection off, there is a lot of vignetting at F1.4.
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As predicted. Vignetting on wides is strongly corrected via soft/firmware. The only way to do it, really.

I am assuming high iso performance will be better with longer lenses. Did you try with your 60 ?
 
ferider said:
As predicted. Vignetting on wides is strongly corrected via soft/firmware. The only way to do it, really.

I am assuming high iso performance will be better with longer lenses. Did you try with your 60 ?
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No, I did take it along unluckily... I'll post results in two weeks if I get the M9 as planned but I have good hopes it will fit the 50mm framelines perfectly and be an excellent Nocti alternative on full frame.
 
You're the first one I hoped who'd get the camera. Great, I'm looking forward to all those incredibly narrow DOF shots.

martin
 
yanidel said:
- the lens manual selection menu is a wonderful addition and works perfect.
- with lens detection off, there is a lot of vignetting at F1.4.
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So, from these two lines, does this mean that one can set the current lens manually, and thus not need to worry about lens detection w/ uncoded lenses?

j
 
martin s said:
You're the first one I hoped who'd get the camera. Great, I'm looking forward to all those incredibly narrow DOF shots.

martin
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thanks, I have two weeks to wait though as France for once seems to receive them last ;) (because of the leaks?)
 
JonasYip said:
So, from these two lines, does this mean that one can set the current lens manually, and thus not need to worry about lens detection w/ uncoded lenses?

j
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yes, a list of all Leica lenses appear and you select it manually. Good for non Leica lens as you can choose the most similar one. For example if you have a 35mm CV Nokton 1.4, choosing the 35mm Lux Asph will probably mean good correction on your CV.
 
That's like trying to get Ferrari sound out of a Tesla - ersatz!

You are dependant on adding software and micro lenses between your excellent lens and the camera's sensor. It's a Mickey Mouse band-aid. My D2X Nikon doesn't need it - the G1 doesn't have it - the M6 has no need to think abot it.

We trade the IR filter for software and microlenses? Waz up?
 
so in the exif data does it say only the focal length or does it say the actual lens itself? ex : 35 lux comes up as 35mm solely or 35mm 1.4 asph etc?

thanks, always dig your work.
 
yanidel said:
Out of camera DNG more punchy in terms of colors.
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I really like the M8's color characteristics - and for the last couple of years people have been raving about how 'film-like' the M8 color is. But now I've read a few people saying the color from the M9 is 'punchier' or 'better' (whatever that means).
I'm really not sure what to think about a lot of this - I'm considering the M9 too but so far none of the images I've downloaded (jpegs or DNGs) have impressed me.

PS: looking at the DNGs in Raw Developer again now - I'd actually say the M9 files simply look more digital to me than the M8 files... I'll probably have to eat those words at some time in the future when I buy the darn camera. :(
 
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fbf said:
good question. Because the iso 160 is not very convincing to me. It is more grainy than m8 or possibly most of low end aps-c DSLRs.
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I think the grain comes from the JPG compression because I do not see any in the dng file.
 
ali_baba said:
so in the exif data does it say only the focal length or does it say the actual lens itself? ex : 35 lux comes up as 35mm solely or 35mm 1.4 asph etc?

thanks, always dig your work.
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I checked with the Exif viewer and found a big surprise :
the aperture used is estimated, in this case 1.4 which is correct. I looked at a M8 file and it was not the case.
The focal nevertheless states 35mm, Lux is never mentioned.
 
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