Glad you're enjoying your 50/1.4 so much! Digital B&W, especially with
coloured filters (e.g. red), is really rather poor in terms of
resolution
/ noise compared to film, because - as you said - you are effectively
blocking 2/3rds of the image sensor, whereas with most B&W films,
even pure red light will excite all the silver grains.
I always got comparatively poor results when using red filter (optical,
or in post-processing) on my Canon 1D MkIIN files, I can imagine it must
be orders of magnitude worse on a 4/3rds body.
Still, your images look nice at on-screen resolution!
D.
On 25 May 2010, at 6:46 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> I got some criticism that I fixating on the bokeh and DoF
> characteristics of the 50mm F1.4 lens. On Saturday, after exhausting
> the honeydo list, I went down to the Spaulding factory to test out the
> B&W capabilities of the L1 with and without filters.
>
> www.zone-10.com
>
> I won't be packing away the Ilford just yet, but it isn't too bad.
>
> AG
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