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Leica M240
Zeiss ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon

Aperture Series: Fading Maple Leaves In Backlit Creek (M240)

The interest here is how well the Zeiss ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon handles a high dynamic range and very high contrast scene, including the dark areas and the highlights.

The light was flickering moment to moment, changing the lighting here and there, and the M240 falls short on dynamic range and so a few areas are blown. But for this example, it is the overall contrast that is of interest, so no contrast control has been employed (shadows not raised, highlights not pulled down) so as to see the scene as delivered by the lens.

Backlit maple leaves in creek

No camera lens correction / lens coding.
ACR settings, Camera Profile = Embedded

The RawDigger histogram shows some loss of highlight detail, but this is just fine; it is specular. The dynamic range really pushed the limits of what the M240 sensor can handle, with large areas of very dark tones.

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