Toothwalker, I would say that your train image is about the coolest and most original shot I have seen in several years. Exposure was timed just perfectly to provide the continuous blur and leave no track open and no train car gap apparent. Really a phenomenal shot...and well composed beyond the technical factor as well. Bravo.
Pano of ~20 shots from CY 100/2 of peaks in Whistler, Canada. I wish that I had run the lens along the horizon another 20 frames to flesh out the bottom better. I had not taken full account of how steep the slope I was on and how much I was tilting up as I panned. Sniff. Guess I will have to go back and do it right.
This was a dangerous place .. become a storm when we had gone into the canyon and could barely walk or stand up straight .. once we come to this small but high waterfall
so it began to blow down rocks from the mountains around us, which hit the ground around us .. big as a fist ... a crappy picture then out fast as hell
Last summer I tried to use Contax S-Planar T* 2.8/60 for non-makro / non-closeup work. I just could not find much love for the rendering style at medium/long shooting distances. I like the lens rendering quite a lot for close-ups (~1:10 magnification), and makros.
This lens clearly demonstrates that when sagittal and tangential lines separate boke is awful. If you look MTF-graphs (link to Zeiss lens PDF) the infinity graph is pretty awful, 1:10 magnification graph is extreme good, and lines stay pretty well together (and boke is pretty good @ 1:10, not shown in these photos).
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/5.6, 1/400s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - focus plane is not as bad as MTF chart looks like, but even at f/5.6 the very far away boke looks awful
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/2.8, 1/200s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - again focus plane doesn't look so bad, even this is shoot wide open - boke looks busy and boke highlights have strong concentration of light to outer ring
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/2.8, 1/250s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - Wow, found the hotspot for bad boke
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/5.6, 1/100s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - Getting closer (about 1:20) and focus plane obviously starts to be very high quality but boke is very "thick", even lots of ugliness has vanished due to closer focus distance
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/5.6, 1/125s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - mid-distance landscapes tend to render quite ok, but somehow lens takes diffraction badly (clear weakening when closing down to f/8)
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/2.8, 1/200s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - again focus plane doesn't look so bad, even this is shoot wide open - boke looks busy and boke highlights have strong concentration of light to outer ring
Carl Zeiss S-Planar T* 2.8/60 CY @ f/5.6, 1/100s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100 - Getting closer (about 1:20) and focus plane obviously starts to be very high quality but boke is very "thick", even lots of ugliness has vanished due to closer focus distance
Samuli
it's kinda the reverse of the 50/1.4 planar, which seems to get better in bokeh with distance up to a point.
