Nice pictures
I think I like the 7artisans photos you took more than the cron. Of those two, which do you prefer and why ?
(just to confirm its the 50mm leica summicron when you say cron 50)
It depends on the situation really.
The 50mm leica summicron images are of higher technical quality, the leica lens has no real distortion, and it’s pretty small and light... but the 7artisans pics have a more dreamy feel to them, they have more of the shallow dof effect (as it’s nearly 2stops faster than the cron) but the cron images have (to me at least) a more pleasing colour and contrast signature
I have to edit the 7artisans pictures
a lot more than I do the cron ones
A friend of mine jokes that the 7artisans makes my CCD sensor look like a CMOS one, he’s just being funny but I totally get the punch line of his joke.
The 7artisans is a well built, very fast optic at a price that’s so low any manufacturer would struggle to make a lens for that cost/spec ratio
Hold the cron next to the 7artisans and it’s a struggle to see why the cron costs 5 or 6 times as much
But away from the attention grabbing headline of “F1.1” and used at “f8 and be there” the cron is in my view by far the better performer
Douro Fog by
Adam Bonn, on Flickr
At f8 the 7artisans is good enough and a credit to its price point, but without the immense shallow dof look the picture looks much the same as with any camera
Alone on the Beach by
Adam Bonn, on Flickr
The cron at f8 has
in my view, far more of a ‘3d step into the picture’ look about it.
and that’s my take away really...
You buy a 7artisans to make shallow dof pictures that have a
tiny bit of Summilux/Noctilux
magic but without spending secondhand car money that these Leica lenses cost and you shoot your 7artisans wide open as often as possible
But you buy a cron to have a solid performer that works well at all apertures, that’s light and small, has no discernible distortion or vignetting
PERSONALLY I think of the M as a reportage camera, I like shallow dof as much as the next person, maybe more... but in my
opinion if you want to shoot everything with a hyper shallow dof look, then there are many cameras better suited to doing that than rangefinders, even rangefinders with clip on EVFs