MS Optical APORIA 24mm f/2 ... anyone using this lens?

[Godfrey]

Concentrating on wide-open use with the MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2, I made these photos on yesterday's walk around the neighborhood in late afternoon. The square crops are usually near the full vertical dimension of the frame, others are cropped only so much as to level them properly.

Ornamental Leaf - Santa Clara 2021
Leica CL + MS Optical Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/2 @ 1/400


Looking Ahead, Looking Behind - Santa Clara 2021
Leica CL + MS Optical Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/2 @ 1/2000


Looking Down #001 - Santa Clara 2021
Leica CL + MS Optical Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/2 @ 1/100


Looking Down #090 - Santa Clara 2021
Leica CL + MS Optical Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/2 @ 1/160


Looking Down #101 - Santa Clara 2021
Leica CL + MS Optical Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/2 @ 1/80


Catching Late Light - Santa Clara 2021
Leica CL + MS Optical Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/2 @ 1/320​

It's interesting to see how much image degradation is caused by subtle movements of my body and hands rather than by mis-focus in a couple of these. As always, "my sharpest lens is a sturdy tripod" rules the day. 🙂

Enjoy! G

 

[Godfrey]

My next adventure with the MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2 lens is to see what it does fitted via a Leica M to Hasselblad X adapter using the Hasselblad 907x camera. The Aporia 24 is almost laughably tiny compared to the XCD21 lens! It weighs about 1/3 what the lens mount adapter weighs... 😀

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The Hasselblad sensor is 33x44 mm, the lens was designed for 24x36 format, so the image circle should cover the sensor adequately when cropped to square format.

Photos and shooting impressions soon... 🙂

G

 

[hap]

sounds like a great experiment!

 

[Godfrey]

Some test photos using the Aporia 24mm f/2 from my daily walks:

Methodist Church Under Repair - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/400
Lightroom defaults - no edits.


Art and Missiles - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/250
Lightroom defaults - no edits.


Direction - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/60


Shadow on Tiled Path - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/500


Water Distribution - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/125


Pickets - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/125


Siding, Sun, and Shadows - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/180


Light Beam on Surface Texture - Santa Clara 2021
Hasselblad 907x + MS Optics Aporia 24mm f/2
ISO 100 @ f/5.6 @ 1/100​

There are several issues using this lens on the Hasselblad:

- Electronic shutter only, with a scan time of 300milliseconds. So moving subjects are nearly impossible.

- A 24mm lens, even with full viewfinder magnification for focus assist, proves hard to judge the best focus point. Normally I'd just set the lens by scale, but the focusing scale on the Aporia is way off the mark and needs to be fully re-calibrated to get the best out of it.

- Luckily, a 24mm lens at f/5.6 has so much DoF on this format, you can focus pretty approximately and still get usable sharpness. I made a mark for 7 foot distance… that covers 3.5' to infinity.

- The camera naturally wants to ride nose up on a strap as I walk, which invites dropping dirt and garbage onto the lens, so I carried it in a bag.

It's fun stuff, however, and is sure amusing. You can see in the first two shots (which are directly out of the camera, resized only) there is a bit of color shifting across the capture field but it's fairly subtle.

Enjoy!
G

 

[Out to Lunch]

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[eckhardf]

Those Hasselblad photos look great using the Aporia Godfrey. Really like Pickets and Shadow on the Tiles. Nice compositional use of the square format.