That actually looks much nicer, the bokeh is smoother. When I saw the
first picture, the bokeh in the orange flowers literally JUMPED OUT at me.
But this image is much, much smoother.
You might want to try sharpening only the girl by using a layer mask.
I've been hunting for some Noctilux examples to compare against. The bit
thing that many people like is the smooth, relativly even out-of-focus
areas of that lens. Look at these:
http://www.shinozuka-family.com/f1/ (images #1, #6, #7) The background
seems to just blur out of existance in most of these.
I really don't think this is so simple and clear. #3 has OOF halos
with bright edges, #6 reflections are doubled one above the other,
but it seems to be the only one where the distances are similar to
those in CH Ling's print. #7 also has a few hard edged halos.
http://www.vothphoto.com/spotlight/reviews/noctilux.htm A nice review and
a few photos.
Again on the first picture, the window frame in the back, at least on
the bottom, looks like a double exposure instead of smoothly blurred.
The mothers face with bright areas, but out of focus looks lumpy to
me.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/noctilux.shtml One very
nice picture with the man and woman showing nice smooth bokeh.
The halos are smooth but the lit structure in back again looks like a
shaky double exposure.
Not to go through them all. I have been a Leica fan too, but I don't
think the differences between the two lenses jump out at you. It may
be that superb bokeh is not possible when sacrifices are made for
speed. I do wonder whether the OM bokeh might be seen differently if
there were a half dozen self congratulatory "reviews" of the 1.2 on
the web with the word legendary scattered about. Maybe we should have
done that and saved the OM system.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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