uhoh7
Veteran
I think the ray angle issue is certainly real, Raid. It's a question of what one is willing to accept as we look to the extreme edge of the image.
The CV 21 was just too compromised for me when I first got the M9 and saw it with the ZM18. I was going to sell the little CV, and I bought the SEM 21, which is great, and you could argue M9+SEM21 is hard to beat with any camera at base ISO (at 21mm). Certainly no DSLR zoom can do so, and I don't know a better 21 prime, unless you must have something faster.
However, the SEM is not small (not large), and valuable. The CV goes in any pocket. So I starting grabbing it and testing again this fall, as you can see in those first images. I did not have to use corner fix. Just that 21 elmairt profile.
I love those shots, period. Sure, you can see the lens get softer in the outer regions, and it's much more so than on film with that lens. I could have done five shots with my 28 and stitched them, I guess. But I like just the nice simple way, take one shot and see what you get. The CV imperfections are almost charming at times, like the edges of a 5cm sonnar like Brian loves. They are no better, that's for sure.
Try this with a 50:
L1053614 by unoh7, CV21/4
Yes, you can turn the M9 backwards and easily do a selfie in a car! Look at the mirror on the left edge. It's not fuzzy. LOL
Here it is wide open at F/4:
L1053613 by unoh7, on Flickr
I love the shot. I never once thought, oh! I wish i'd had the SEM21, those darn ray angles on the edge. In fact the shot has a look which is impossible at any other FL. To me the CV21/4+M9 is priceless: look what it gave my family. 🙂
What is so fun about 21 is you have incredible DOF, so you can zone focus and experiment:
L1054426-2 by unoh7, on Flickr
yes, from my bike in flight, the CV 21. If you check the original, you can see power lines over her RIGHT shoulder at a mile away leading right into the edge. None of the images i've posted here are cropped BTW. So perhaps you can see why I have no sympathy for the dismissal even of the CV21 on technical grounds for use with the M9. I don't deny it has problems. That's half the fun, like a sonnar 😉
Now, someday I will get a SEM18 to replace the ZM18. But the CV21 will stay, with it's more perfect and more costly friends, because it has what they do not: tininess. 🙂 Quirky charm just a bonus 😉
DSC00781 by unoh7, on Flickr
The CV 21 was just too compromised for me when I first got the M9 and saw it with the ZM18. I was going to sell the little CV, and I bought the SEM 21, which is great, and you could argue M9+SEM21 is hard to beat with any camera at base ISO (at 21mm). Certainly no DSLR zoom can do so, and I don't know a better 21 prime, unless you must have something faster.
However, the SEM is not small (not large), and valuable. The CV goes in any pocket. So I starting grabbing it and testing again this fall, as you can see in those first images. I did not have to use corner fix. Just that 21 elmairt profile.
I love those shots, period. Sure, you can see the lens get softer in the outer regions, and it's much more so than on film with that lens. I could have done five shots with my 28 and stitched them, I guess. But I like just the nice simple way, take one shot and see what you get. The CV imperfections are almost charming at times, like the edges of a 5cm sonnar like Brian loves. They are no better, that's for sure.
Try this with a 50:
L1053614 by unoh7, CV21/4
Yes, you can turn the M9 backwards and easily do a selfie in a car! Look at the mirror on the left edge. It's not fuzzy. LOL
Here it is wide open at F/4:
L1053613 by unoh7, on Flickr
I love the shot. I never once thought, oh! I wish i'd had the SEM21, those darn ray angles on the edge. In fact the shot has a look which is impossible at any other FL. To me the CV21/4+M9 is priceless: look what it gave my family. 🙂
What is so fun about 21 is you have incredible DOF, so you can zone focus and experiment:
L1054426-2 by unoh7, on Flickr
yes, from my bike in flight, the CV 21. If you check the original, you can see power lines over her RIGHT shoulder at a mile away leading right into the edge. None of the images i've posted here are cropped BTW. So perhaps you can see why I have no sympathy for the dismissal even of the CV21 on technical grounds for use with the M9. I don't deny it has problems. That's half the fun, like a sonnar 😉
Now, someday I will get a SEM18 to replace the ZM18. But the CV21 will stay, with it's more perfect and more costly friends, because it has what they do not: tininess. 🙂 Quirky charm just a bonus 😉
DSC00781 by unoh7, on Flickr
