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 p.13 #16 · 5D III for alt and MF lenses: a game changer! | |
I am glad it is working for you. 85 mm is not the most difficult lens for MF. I was having plenty of problems with 5d mii and zeiss 35 1.4 ze. I photograph people and they move. Af assist was never ever even close to accurate. With eg-s i started learning my own way, but i get tired after some time. I love the result this lens produces....if i hit the focus, but many times i do not.
I think mkiii with this lens is going to be even more difficult and untill it will be a common opinion proven with results that mkiii helps with 35 1.4, i will not upgrade.....for me it is a non starter.
philber wrote:
A few days ago, a thread reported Lloyd Chambers' opinion that manually focusing a 5D III with its viewfinder was a non-starter. That really worried me, since (a) I only use MF lenses (Zeiss), (b) I wear glasses, to correct for a declining eyesight, in line with my age (56), and (c) I use some really difficult glass, since ZE 50P and 85P have focus shift. The icing on the cake is that I am leaving saturday for a major photographic expedition, and lusted for some 5D III goodness, if it proved superior to my 5D II.
I have only had it a few hours, but here are my early findings. I do not find that the standard VF screen makes it any harder to focus than my 5DII's EG-S.
BUT the much improved AF is a game changer for MF! Now I haven't had the time to micro-adjust my lenses, or to select the best AF configuration for my needs (essentially landscape). I just turned noise reduction off, and started shooting JPEGs to see if I could focus my MF lenses. And the result blew me away, because of the MF assist. The AF will focus even in an almost dark room. It will lead the camera in P mode to go for f:1.4, 1/80s and ISO 12.800 with my ZE 85, and the focus is spot on every time, something that was simply not possible on the 5D II. First, it would not focus very well at all when it got dark, and then the cam in P mode is limited to ISO 3200. This does not mean that the shos erfect, ISO 12.800 being hardly noiseless, but it definitely is focused correctly.
This is so obviously excellent that tomorrow I will do my micro-adjust, and see if I can forget about focusing other than with MF assist. My guess, based on today's tests, is that at f:5.6 and beyond, my keeper rate will be close to that with LiveView, around 85%+. Between f:2.8 and f;5.6, I have on a very small sample, reached 65%, Vs 45% usually, and below f:2.8, I should be above 40% instead of 25%. It is also going to facilitate shooting wide open so much that this type of shooting should from now on be much more frequent.
This is all about VF-based focusing, not about resulting IQ, which has been described in so many other threads that my 2 cents would be useless. But it is my guess that any MF lens which can be connected to a 5D III by way of a chipped adapter, and that means lots a great glass, is now a breeze....
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