08-29-2016, 12:27 PM
I think colour is more than just contrast. Different wave lengths can be impacted differently based on the lens coating/design. This causes the total (colour) rendering to appear differently. Partially related there was a term folks used with zeiss lens 'clarity' to describe how it rendered colour. I'm not really familiar with optical terminology but I have seen how different lenses will impact blue and reds in the film age and I can't really reproduce it by simply adjusting contrast with different lenses. Perhaps I lack the skills or the understanding of what the optics are doing to the rgb to emulate it by digital adjustment or perhaps it is more subtle than simply moving the r,b,g sliders in adobe.
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Having said the above I'm not sure that this is something photozone can (or should) test. I suppose you could note in a standardize sceen how different lenses render (bokeh, colour, ...) but formally test ?
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Having said the above I definitly miss my zeiss contax lenses and their rendering with film. The mamiya 7 lenses were also pretty darn decent for morning/night images but I've never really been able to get the same sort of rendering with the digital age (esp with canon). I haven't done that much photography in the past few years so I can't really give a fair comment on fuji system; and the olympus system was ok i guess (the lenses I used) but seemed to lack the overall punch of the c/y.
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The above is more of a commetn on system than actual lenses. In case you are curious the c/y lenses I used the most were the 25, 35-70, 85f1.4 and 100f3.5. Occasionally I used the 21,28 and 50. never really cared for the 21 since it was a bit too wide for the sort of usage that suited myself.
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Having said the above I'm not sure that this is something photozone can (or should) test. I suppose you could note in a standardize sceen how different lenses render (bokeh, colour, ...) but formally test ?
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Having said the above I definitly miss my zeiss contax lenses and their rendering with film. The mamiya 7 lenses were also pretty darn decent for morning/night images but I've never really been able to get the same sort of rendering with the digital age (esp with canon). I haven't done that much photography in the past few years so I can't really give a fair comment on fuji system; and the olympus system was ok i guess (the lenses I used) but seemed to lack the overall punch of the c/y.
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The above is more of a commetn on system than actual lenses. In case you are curious the c/y lenses I used the most were the 25, 35-70, 85f1.4 and 100f3.5. Occasionally I used the 21,28 and 50. never really cared for the 21 since it was a bit too wide for the sort of usage that suited myself.