50mm Bokeh shootout

From a post on a car forum I visit, someone asked if I had direct comparrison shots of the different look, feel, taste and texture, or Bokeh  of the various lenses I had mentioned. No. was the answer, But quite intigued myself. So whilst out n about stopped off and took some pics. Set tripod up to maintain perspective and angle. Light was very flat. Whilst may not have helped. (not sure)

So the lenses in question are the Summar (1936), Summitar, Summicron (collapsible) Elmer-M (collapsible), Canon F1.4 in LTM and a 7Artisans F1.1. DOH! forgot to bring the Taylor Hobson Anastigmat.
I mention the age of the Summar as it just tickles me that an 83 year old lens still works in itself and mounted to a modern digital camera. Marvellous.

(note to self, how on earth did I end up with 6, 50mm lenses) make that 7.

Apologies for the iffy exposures. Not paying attention. And straight off the chip as normal.

Summar

Summitar

Summicron

Elmar-M

Canon

7Artisans

Summar

Summitar

Summicron

Elmar-M

Canon

7Artisans

Flat light

Out and about stopped off and took a snap with the M and Elmar combo also took a couple with the phone.
Flat and fading light nothing special, just nice combining two interests. Had a little play with selective focus.

90mm tele-elmarit-M vs 50mm Elmar-m and a school boy error

It's Sunday afternoon and the sun is dropping, not even evening  just the afternoon and the sun is off to bed.

But not before bathing the MR2 and local Leicestershire countryside is bathed in some lovely warm rays.

Took the Voight 15mm out the other week, this week, have gone the other end and brought out the 90mm to mix things up, fancied some compressed perspective and all that. Nice smooth focus and image looked good in the rangefinder, good clean crisp lines using the number plate to focus on, but on closer inspection on the big screen at home, the focus was off.

Made bit of a school boy error. I had checked focus with live view, then put back to my eye and had to re-adjust, for some reason thinking the live view was off, No the live view was fine it is the lens that is out.

I say the lens is out as when I swapped over to Elmar and carried on rangefinder focusing images are fine.

Pleasant enough but not what they could have been. Hey ho.

The 90s

The 50s