Leica 28mm Summilux-M – 01
For some thoughts on the Panasonic S1R and my ad hoc "test methodology", please click the top image below.
I took test shots with four M-lenses with a Panasonic S1R: Leica 21mm, 28mm and 50mm Summilux and Zeiss 35mm Distagon ZM, all f/1.4 lenses, all at f/1.4. This is one of the test shots uploaded to Flickr.
All these are actual pixels at 100% magnification in Capture One. Most of these zoomed in views are from the corners. The panel on the right shows the stream of shots in full frame, with the current frame highlighted.
The in-camera JPEG processing is quite mediocre – it is easy to see posterization effects. But having used other Panasonic Lumix cameras in the past, I have no doubt that the raw files will be far superior.
For this shot, I realized later that I had the camera at an odd angle, and not quite square with the model. So her head is slightly skewed, but the goal with this was to see the corner sharpness.
This is very impressive! I don't think the designers of this lens ever had a chance to test it on a whopping 47 MP sensor! The most they would have tested it on would have been 24 MP. My guess is, the designers of this lens must have felt very pleased with themselves when they first saw 47MP images from this lens.
Leica 28mm Summilux-M – 01
For some thoughts on the Panasonic S1R and my ad hoc "test methodology", please click the top image below.
I took test shots with four M-lenses with a Panasonic S1R: Leica 21mm, 28mm and 50mm Summilux and Zeiss 35mm Distagon ZM, all f/1.4 lenses, all at f/1.4. This is one of the test shots uploaded to Flickr.
All these are actual pixels at 100% magnification in Capture One. Most of these zoomed in views are from the corners. The panel on the right shows the stream of shots in full frame, with the current frame highlighted.
The in-camera JPEG processing is quite mediocre – it is easy to see posterization effects. But having used other Panasonic Lumix cameras in the past, I have no doubt that the raw files will be far superior.
For this shot, I realized later that I had the camera at an odd angle, and not quite square with the model. So her head is slightly skewed, but the goal with this was to see the corner sharpness.
This is very impressive! I don't think the designers of this lens ever had a chance to test it on a whopping 47 MP sensor! The most they would have tested it on would have been 24 MP. My guess is, the designers of this lens must have felt very pleased with themselves when they first saw 47MP images from this lens.