@PhilMyself What a beautiful day in beautiful Paris! It's a real feel-good -clip! Trés bien, bravo! Went last year from Cologne to Paris with Thalis to buy my NOKTON 25mm for a cheaper rate! Saved a bunch of euros, even after several Pastis, café au lait & my train ticket !

i can't wait to see the results from the new nokton/voigtlander 17.5mm/0.95

Thank you guys for your nice comments ! Some some shots were made with the olympus 14-54II. And of course I used a lightcraft ND fader for the Nokton. Can't wait for the 17mm too, but so expensive... Ouch !

I cant found the 25mm f/0.95 Voigtländer Nokton in my country, Argentina, and i dont want to pay the import taxes, 50% here, if someone travel here please PM me and ill send u the money by western union. IWANTA25MMNOKTONNNNN...

Anyone found a nice deal for the Voigtländer if you live in germany? Pixmania.com unfortunately only delivers to either belgium or the netherlands. I can't choose an adress in a different country.

Edit: Oh sorry, I shouldn't have tried to use their .nl domain then. The problem is they only accept credit card payments, so I can't buy it there.

@alexauwa Looking forward to checking it out later today, and in response to your thanks on the other thread, you are quite welcome. I am glad it was useful to you. :)

Update: The facial expressions in that are great and the editing helps to hold interest. I thought the DOF went well with the narrative and it was essentially never distracting. The only shot that felt very slightly off was the one at 01:16, but that is a hard shot under the best of circumstances. Nice job! I really enjoyed it. :)

Thanks a lot for your feedback! Much appreciated.

@RRRR by "...edited down slighty" u mean shortend?

@thepalalias "shot 1.16" Why do you see it slight off? In terms of qualityP How could I improve?

And yes, due to the light conditions it took me a white to set the proper white balance and settings, specially because of the electronic lighting. Once that done I kept iso between 200-400. Apature mainly fully opened, shutter at 50. Good lighting will enhanced quality a lot. I did some corrections in post with red giant softwares - denoiser as some parts in the back still turned out to be a bit noisy. Is there a trick to get rid of it while filming?

@Pechente

I can't believe you are having a hard time finding a deal for the Voigtlander lens in Germany! Voigtlander is a German company and is produced in Germany. Anyways, my recent experience buying stuff from Germany goes to fotomayr, which was a pleasent experience where I could buy via Paypal if I remember correctly. http://www.fotomayr.de/webkat98/homepage.php?/html/006142.HTM Here's the product page for it.

730 eu in the netherlands

http://www.pixmania.nl/nl/nl/xx/97367/xx/433/1/criteresn.html

I live in the city where Voigtländer was located. It has been closed down long ago, but they co-operated with Cosina (just like Leica and Minolta) and Cosina is not only using their brand name, but optical formulas.

@Pechente Okay, I understand. I overlooked Cosina but I am glad you found a good deal and please share your experience with it as well, as I live in Europe my self it would be good to know about good and cheap shops that can ship me the products for a significantly smaller price than what it is here.

@5thwall The answer is different for the manual focus lenses (like the Nokoton) than the electronic m43 ones. Essentially, the tubes only make sense for manual focus because you can`t change the focus point for the electronic ones without an electronic connection. So while the first just requires tubes that are the right side, the second is more specialized.

You should have an easier time finding macro tubes to fit the Nikon than for m43. I used macro tubes for the Canon 24-70mm L when I shot the eyeball macro footage in the Driftwood compilation last year. They are a good choice because the lack of optical elements in the image (glass, plastic, etc,) means that the only side-effects are some light loss and the focus distance shifting closer ( so you cannot focus to infinity with the tubes, etc.)

Now, if you are worried about getting too close to the food and less worried about getting extra glass in the way, you could find a teleconverter (if your lens suports them, which usually means 100mm or more for the Canon combination) and use that instead of the tubes.

Now, the very best image quality is actually achieved by using a dedicated macro lens (but you want to ensure with those that they can get the magnification you need without additional tubes, etc. or there is not much point to them. Canon makes some really stunning ones like the uniqe1-5 (that goes beyond 1:1).

Okay, all of that said: the Nokton does a pretty decent macro on its own. My memory is that you can focus close enough with it to get higher maximum magnification than the Panasonic 20mm, you can check the minimum focusing distance vs the focal length for each, though.

Edit: We can walk through it more at the shoot tonight. You have no idea how long I was up last night dealing with manpower changes at the last minute in terms of dividing lenses. :)