Noct 58/0.95 - technical

[Nikfuson]

Ok, back with more techie stuff. First plane of focus at ca. 2m. Pretty flat!

[Nikfuson]

Bokeh at min focus distance (0.5m). We're still talking f/0.95.
I can't spot any concentric pattern.

[Nikfuson]

No bloomy 0.95 aberrations either.

[Nikfuson]

First shot outdoors (1m), second one indoors (with 100% crop) at the same distance. There is a bit of LoCA but nothing I would be bothered with, say like the LoCA found with the venerable neo-noct 58/1.4G.

[Birna Rørslett]

I found with the Noct files I have played around with so far that the RAW engine used had significant impact on the outcome, including the handling of colour aberrations. So, which one did you use?

[Nikfuson]

I ran these through ACR and Photoshop. I’ve left all corrections at zero.

[Birna Rørslett]

CNX-D removes much more of the colour nasties.

[bobfriedman]

NX-D also has the proprietary WB coefficients. ACR just approximates them.  you could try to use a colorchecker profile to correct if you don't wish to use NX-D.

[Øivind Tøien]

Weather permitting, any chance you could get some well focused star images, say 3 second exposures wide open and slightly stopped down in 1/3 stop steps?   

[John Geerts]

I ran these through ACR and Photoshop. I’ve left all corrections at zero.

The lens is not known in ACR yet?  For the Z 50/1.8S I had to de-select the Lens Profile Corrections which was on !!  Very nasty.

[Nikfuson]

I am trying to provoke the optical results to see what’s in there. But the green purple haze is actually easy to remove, even in ACR. There is already a lens profile in the raw file that ACR recognises. Will see if I can borrow the lens for a couple of days to do more «photography» in addition to boring testing.

[John Geerts]

Great results so far, good luck with the 'Photography'     

[Nikfuson]

Here’s one example; ISO 1600, f/0.95, 1/100s.
Snapbridge to iPhone and PS Express. Quick and dirty job.

[Nikfuson]

Here to try and illustrate the bokeh transition and the sharpness (f/0.95). Twas a bit windy so leaves moved a bit.
Funny how Adobe interprets aperture below f/1 

[Nikfuson]

I see the sharpness as adequate for an aperture below 1.