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Airy

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Champ de Mars
« on: July 29, 2015, 00:46:52 »
Df + 50/1.4 SC (non-AI, simpler optical formula). Wide open ; I like the drawing style. Focus was on upper left flowers. CA removed, but the LoCA remains. Lightroom has trouble removing it.
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2015, 00:53:51 »
... close to the Eiffel Tower, shot same day with the same lens :
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2015, 01:04:55 »
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2015, 01:07:46 »
The first is beautiful, the way the lens draws is fabulous. Now, if you have moved slightly right you could have avoided the tree cutting the bench.
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2015, 01:24:36 »
indeed.
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2015, 02:03:18 »
I like the way you included the figures in #1.  I like the kaleidoscope-like composition of #2.  The muted color rendition of the lens gives a pleasing effect when shooting flowers.
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2015, 06:04:20 »
I did not play any trick with colors in #1. The desaturated look is "normal" with this lens, when wide open.
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2015, 16:02:49 »
Well done and great examples illustrating the lens and your skills.
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Re: Champ de Mars
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2015, 16:29:16 »
Thanks Gary. Exploiting these old lenses' imperfections is actually a nice occupation (a bit expensive too - but no, I'm not gonna buy a Noct). I am starting to understand what other Members here call a "boring" lens. For instance the very good Voigtländer 40/2 could easily become one of these; it requires many more efforts to get an "aha" shot with it. On the other hand, the 50/1.4 SC has more use cases than a Lomograph, as the opposing shots above demonstrate. I still wonder why Lightroom refused to correct the LoCA (the one aberration I never found usable, it simply puts me off). BW conversion should not become the only answer.
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