wfrank wrote:
Thanks zhangyue. Bad part is that I just got me a 50P the other day. Have not been able to try it much but I wouldnt call it very soft or so from the little I've seen so far. Or, maybe I'm just too fond of anything new I get :-), anyway I'll put it through a lot of wideopen shooting soon.
The good part is that I've seen plenty of very attractive images with it, so I have hopes.
Actually, P50 still is my favorite lens even with 50lux now. Sharpness at 1.4 is the only flaw for me. But that lens is just about right for almost everything even wide open, it has good rendering. I can't recommended it higher.
Enjoy your lens. Look forward to see P50 shots from you.
I can't help commenting the P85 when I saw your images and description. It deserve better reputation than it should. Only if P50 has this kind of WO performance, it will be the perfect lens.
Wilhelm - That 85P WO horse shot has quite a bit of detail. Great capture.
Joakim - Beautiful snow and trees. Love the rendering.
Samuli - Your shot from Rokua National Park is just gorgeous. You make me believe I can touch the water dew.
Gunzorro - I like the #1 from the first set.
Vincent - I like the 'depth' shot. Nice light. ( first set )
loosh - Glad to hear your focus confirmation works now. With 1.4/35 ZF, there is about 1.5-2 mm 'slack' when the confirmation light up. I learned that within that range, move focus as close as possible right at when it starts to 'blink', that is where I get intended focus. You might want to play with a bit to see if there is any consistency. Lovely moment captured on your shot.
Naektergal - Great texture and detail of your mushroom series.
I took the 50P out today to give it a go. I find it sharp but with the usual haze a F/1.4 lens gives, perhaps a bit more dreamy haze spot on - but it has a very beautiful rendering.
Here are two shots from todays strole home back from work. Nothing spectacular but since we're in a discussion thread I am not ashamed. Rudimentary PP and natural vignetting, love it still :-)
Wilhelm -- Thanks! I guess it was fate, or else you might be shooting with this lens. Congrats on finding a copy for yourself.
contas -- Thanks so much. That is exactly the effect I was hoping to convey, that sense of being there, and why I didn't correct the perspective on the steel siding.
Luka -- Thanks to you too. I've shot that store front several times in various lighting and seasons, and I think this is the best version so far. It comes out slightly more luminous that it might seem in reality. Like the other images, all processed in LR4 -- this one I did work to straighten perspective -- I wanted it as flat as I could make it.
Wilhelm, another two beautiful shots. Such wonderful color and rendering. Look forward to seeing more. Somehow, I am drawing to 50mm focal length. And Just love 50P's rendering.
Jim, indeed and thanks. You should probably keep it, it's a legend and that's why I got it
Zhang, thank you too. You should show us some of your work, it's a great lens that I think I am going to enjoy a lot - and anytime soon things will get green here too, not just grey:ish :o)
Only vehicles today with the 50P but first a 85P old type of fence - all wide open on the 5D2 and very little processing:
wfrank wrote:
I took the 50P out today to give it a go. I find it sharp but with the usual haze a F/1.4 lens gives, perhaps a bit more dreamy haze spot on - but it has a very beautiful rendering.
Wait till you try it stopped down to f/2.8 -- amazing POP and biting sharpness (not in the corners yet, of course) and the bokeh gets a bit softer (if you can avoid the hexagons). The P50 is quite versatile.
AhamB wrote:
Wait till you try it stopped down to f/2.8 -- amazing POP and biting sharpness (not in the corners yet, of course) and the bokeh gets a bit softer (if you can avoid the hexagons). The P50 is quite versatile.
+1, my personal "sweet spot" is somewhere around f/2.2-2.5 for "pop", f/2.8 at closer distances (thou I'm not sure are you talking about C/Y or ZE/ZF - on other hand it doesn't matter, "sweet spot" is about same, but C/Y hexacons can be very problematic)
Thanks Aham & Samuli, much appreciated. I will give it a try.
Samuli, I do like the results wide open but perhaps this is why you talked about "learning a lens" before - so I'll see if I get more pop out of it which would be something as I think it's quite poppy as it is :-)
wfrank wrote:
Jim, indeed and thanks. You should probably keep it, it's a legend and that's why I got it
Zhang, thank you too. You should show us some of your work, it's a great lens that I think I am going to enjoy a lot - and anytime soon things will get green here too, not just grey:ish :o)
Only vehicles today with the 50P but first a 85P old type of fence
Impressive that you manage to get out and shoot in this weather. I'm waiting for the sun to try out my new planars. Looks like I'll have to wait a while, where did our spring go?
briantho wrote:
Impressive that you manage to get out and shoot in this weather. I'm waiting for the sun to try out my new planars. Looks like I'll have to wait a while, where did our spring go?
Hehe, yeah. Looking forward to see what you come up with Briantho. This is more or less how it really was today, including blur :-)
"The Compact Zoom CZ.2 70-200/T2.9 will start shipping in the fourth quarter of 2012 at a recommended retail price of €14,900 or US$19,900 (excluding VAT)*."
wfrank wrote:
Jim, indeed and thanks. You should probably keep it, it's a legend and that's why I got it
Zhang, thank you too. You should show us some of your work, it's a great lens that I think I am going to enjoy a lot - and anytime soon things will get green here too, not just grey:ish :o)
Actually, I feel all pictures from North Europe has some sort of color cast and clarity with it, I enjoy the color a lot and that certainly is not grey.
"The Compact Zoom CZ.2 70-200/T2.9 will start shipping in the fourth quarter of 2012 at a recommended retail price of €14,900 or US$19,900 (excluding VAT)*."
Yes, very expensive indeed. However the ZF/ZE-line is always much cheaper than the Compact-line. Zeiss also says there are more zooms to come.
Congrats on finding a copy for yourself. 
