I also used mine with the rubber hood, it is a nice way to keep the size compact, also the meltal hood needs an oversized lens cap. Hope the lens is going to work out for you.
Reshoot at a different location. It is hard to tell what it is. CA will show up in OOF areas with most lenses in hard conditions. I am not sure if that is CA.
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That's not CA--simply background bleeding through due to OOF. You can see that it changes colors depending on what's behind the fence. CA will be quite a bit different in manifestation.
The lens is an optical knockout--don't remember much, if any CA even in the furthest corners (where you're likely to see it the most)
Daniel Heineck wrote:
That's not CA--simply background bleeding through due to OOF. You can see that it changes colors depending on what's behind the fence. CA will be quite a bit different in manifestation.
The lens is an optical knockout--don't remember much, if any CA even in the furthest corners (where you're likely to see it the most)
Ok let me contribute a people shot or two then... all on 5DII, RAW processed untouched in LR except as indicated. AWB on most. Shots probably at F5.6 or F8.
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This was handheld at 1/25 s, so kindly blame all blur on my shaky hands - the lens is not at fault! Pushed it 1.5EV in LR.
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I'm kicking myself for missing the focus so badly on this one, but I'm still honing my MF + stopdown skills. I guess what this shot shows is that the lens can be aimed to include people in the picture :P...
Great images. A serious contender for 'most 3D lens', and what terrific OOF treatment, with context so well preserved. A great shame slow lenses in general, and this one in particular, fell out of favour in the market place of 'fast and furious' lenses. I'm almost at the point I don't want to buy anything faster than f3.5 or so.
philip_pj wrote:
Great images. A serious contender for 'most 3D lens', and what terrific OOF treatment, with context so well preserved. A great shame slow lenses in general, and this one in particular, fell out of favour in the market place of 'fast and furious' lenses. I'm almost at the point I don't want to buy anything faster than f3.5 or so.
Yeah I think with full frame comes great responsibility not to have the 'narrow dof look' just because you can. Good thing this lens helps discipline myself. The 5D2's pretty decent ISO 1600-3200 makes the lens usable still in moderately low light. The only reason I would want it to be faster is to have a brighter picture in the VF and allow more accurate / easier MF.
One 'problem' is building a decent / sensible kit around this lens, at least for me. Still need a 35 or 50/1.4 for very low light, a wide / ultrawide and and something a little longer, like 100-135. At least casual macros are taken care of by the 35-70... So having this as part of a travel trinity is tricky - more likely to be part of a quadra, or depending on planned situation, a duo with an ultrawide OR fast standard OR short-medium tele... I think for a duo it is terrific...
