Noctilux Challenge

[fgianni]

OR, shooting all NIGHT and critiquing all day...

Exactly, that 's the whole point of the noctilux!

 

[fgianni]

Ok, Summilux 75 2nd with R-D1 wide open, tell me what U think!

I mean the summilux wide open, not the R-D1

 

[RdEoSg]

Here's one of mine shot at f1.0 a few days ago...

My favorite shot so far! Keep them coming everyone. This is a great thread. I am getting tempted to take the .95 canon and the 85 1.2 canon af home this weekend!

 

[Olsen]

Here's another one taken with Canon EF 50 mm 1,0L and EOS3 (one of my best cameras ever). At aparture 1,0 and 1/60, according to memory. The flowers? Bluebells.

 

[dspeltz]

Canon 50mm F0.95, wide-open on the Canon 7.

This is a knockout. More please!

 

[willie_901]

This is taken with my 1Ds II - EF 50 mm 1,0 - at aparture 1,0 - 1/25 - hand held (supported to a hand rail) at 400ASA. I have sharpened it a bit in PS, but have no way of getting rid of the AC which is 'cosing about in the tree tops'.

Now that, is where an ultra fast lens excels. What a fantastic photo.

willie

 

[willie_901]

For me, the key to using the Noctilux is to treat it as a short telephoto that happens to have a "normal" FoV (I know wide angle afficionados already consider 50mm to be a short tele), since the DoF @ f/1 is close to what you get w/a 90/2 or 85/2 wide open (& a bit more than you get w/the 75/1.4 Summilux) @ similar distances.

I am so pleased you posted this. After using a couple a 50/1.4. 50/1.2 and now a 50/1.5, I couldn't agree more. Like any technique selective DOF can be misused. In my experience, apertures less than 2.8 greatly restrict the versatility of any 50mm lens at subject distances of less than ~ 10 feet.

willie

 

[colinh]

Canon 50mm F0.95, wide-open on the Canon 7.

Is this really bad bokeh - or good bokeh?

I thought good bokeh was a swirly cloud of colour?

colin

PS. My spelling chequer doesn't like "bokeh".

 

[peter_n]

Noctilux at f1.0 and closest focus distance.

 

[raid]

I had the privilege of shooting several ultra fast lenses recently. They are gone now, and allI have left is a Canon 50/1.2. I will use it more often.

The posted images so far are great. Keep them coming.

Raid

 

[Olsen]

Noctilux at f1.0 and closest focus distance.

Can't be. At the closest focusing distance - one meter, the DOF at aparture 1,0 is only a few milimeters. The DOF at this distance is something like on my bluebells pictures above.

 

[peter_n]

Sorry, but I remember twisting the lens to closest and then rocking back and forth. I took a look at the photo before I posted it and the lashes on her left eye seems to be where the focus is. I did apply USM before saving so that might have been a mistake...

 

[Sonnar Brian]

These are the first two pictures that I took with my Canon 50mm F0.95, bought off Ebay. Mounted on the Canon 7 that I got from Karen N.

Used the same technique, closest focus and moved the camera to get the selected focus.

Kodacolor 400, hand-held, wide-open at F0.95.

 

[Biggles]

That's a gorgeous portrait, mister_n.

 

[peter_n]

She might not say that but thanks Biggles.

 

[dspeltz]

Here is my contribution today to the f/1 club. Noctilux at f/1.0 at closest focus.

 

[RdEoSg]

Thats an interesting shot of a normally boring housing feature! Is that a palm tree in the background?

 

[dspeltz]

Thats an interesting shot of a normally boring housing feature! Is that a palm tree in the background?

Yes it is a palm tree. I took it at the Biltmore Resort in Phoenix during today's rainstorm.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

> Is this really bad bokeh - or good bokeh?

> I thought good bokeh was a swirly cloud of colour?

Some people equate over/under correction of spherical aberration with bad/good Bokeh. If you like the effect, it does not matter what others call it. I like this effect. On Flickr, this is the "Most Favorite" photo that I have posted, 27 people calling it a favorite.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pictures_with_old_cameras/262924093/

It is a test shot that I made, with the Sun in the right hand corner of the picture. I wanted to test the flare characteristics.

 

[peter_n]

After checking out the thread on the Canon 50/0.95 just now (see link below) I have to say that Olsen is correct in his comment above about my picture; there is way to much in focus for it to be f1.0 at closest focus. My apologies to you Olsen; I am very new to this lens but I will learn!

I was just checking out where the picture was taken in my dining room and the distance looks about a meter so maybe this isn't the distance but the aperture - must have been smaller than f1.0 somehow...

Canon's Monster 50f/0.95 Lens -- DOF test