Fujian 35mm f/1.7

Photato wrote:

Najinsky wrote:

... the exposure seems off by about 1.5 stops. Most likely cause is because your monitor is set too brightly when you edit.

Thanks Andy.

You might be right. I need to re-calibrate my monitor.

Checking with y iPad they look a bit darker but not by 1.5 stops.

Eyes are funny things, highly adaptable and able to adjust to huge variances in light intensity, something to do with the pupil opening and closing to let more light in.

At 100% brightness, but in a darkened room, my iPad Pro gives off white light so bright I could open a tanning studio. But just for you, I braved this radiation and I set it thus to 100% and indeed I saw your photos in the light you probably see them in.

Then, for comparison, and relief from the burn, I Set my iPad back to around 70% brightness. I then saved one of your images to photos, edited the photo and allowed the iPad to auto-correct it. Between exposure, shadows and brightness, it added about 1.2 stops to the image, and gave a similar look as your posted image at 100% ipad brightness (in a dark room), so my guess is, your images would look better (less dark) on a larger number of other people's viewer devices, if the exposure was raised by at least a stop.

one way to check this would be to print an image. My guess is the print would look quite dark and need a fairly large gamma correction to print as you currently see it.

but the message of the post is not lost, and it's good to see the nice performance of this lens too.

Yes a great value.

Yes, it has excellent contrast and colour, and quite a special kind of look that's hard to describe but very pleasant to see. A really good find.