up to your own domain in fact they sell those too and you are in business so head over to squarespace using the link below this video and you can try it out for absolutely free and when you do decide that squarespace is right for you i can save you an additional NUMBER_TOKEN on your first order by using offer code aop so once again offer code aop and i want to give a special shout out and thanks to the awesome folks at squarespace for sponsoring this video let's dig a little deeper into characteristics the first thing i want to talk about is sharpness so i'm going to be honest if you want a really sharp modern leica lens this is probably not your lens this is a vintage lens design and photographers that want that kind of look are going to be thrilled with this as i mentioned earlier even at f NUMBER_TOKEN it's very natural it has a more cinematic look i personally really like this it does have a lot more of a NUMBER_TOKENs feel to it i've not had an opportunity to compare this to the original version but i will say in the reissue that color rendition is impressively good this is not the case with a lot of retro style lenses that you can buy today but like you use modern coatings on this lens so you're going to get the best of both worlds with this now performance i'm going to be honest here performance is a challenge with this lens as i mentioned the images are a little soft when you're shooting wide open especially at the minimum focus distance you want things to move a little further back one little non-scientific test that i like to do with all the lenses that i review is to look at the field of focus so what we need to do is shoot something with texture i use the street in this case when i take it into photoshop and run it through the find edges filter you're going to only see what is sharp in the image and you can see that wide open at a close focus distance this is really not sharp corner to corner and so it becomes kind of a challenge to use a lot of times you think you've nailed the focus it looks slightly off in the image and it's actually on it's just a little bit soft wide open now of course this improves as you stop down and it's a NUMBER_TOKEN lens so you can start stopping down to improve that performance but at a minimum focus distance it really doesn't start improving till about f NUMBER_TOKEN so it's something you're going to have to learn how to live with it is a look and you kind of have to work towards the characteristics of this lens to get the most out of it that could be a deal breaker for some people i also want to note that the minimum focus distance on this lens is one meter or about three feet four inches which is common of lenses this era it's also the same across the board with all noctulux lenses that is the same minimum focus distance so m-mount lenses are a fascinating challenge because they're designed to be used with a rangefinder camera if the lens is too big it blocks the rangefinder and when you use the lens hood on this lens there is definitely some blockage even though it's ventilated so you can see through parts of it m-mount lens design is an art unto itself it always comes down to trade-offs but honestly this lens has a very organic
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