awesome flower shots guys! which brand 8mm tube are you using for the shots phil!?! Are you guys using the manual focus screens for your Nikon? I might be blind lol, but i feel like sometimes using the zeiss at 1.4 i think i nailed the shot and it is totally out of focus =/ It looks in focus in the small little view finder. Lol i think i might have to go to a doctor or just grab the sony and use the focus peaking.
Congrats on your new camera, Phil!
Alex, I am using a Nikon-brand tube, for my Nikon-mount Otus on Sony A7R. 8mm is actually short. My guess is that it does not get me 1:2 magnification, let alone 1:1. I use it for flowers, rather than macro. But there are longer tubes, of course. I tried 12mm, and that felt like 1:2. And there is no way i could get a single shot, let alone a decent keeper rate, without the magnification that the Sony offers.
Deep crop, with tube.
Despite the option to use tubes on the current Otus-lenses, I hope/expect a real APO 1:1 Otus in future. In fact that will be the only other Otus that I will buy. Using tubes seems to me a not very well balanced configuration that also can generate a lot of strain on the lensmount.
I was using a tripod and live-view for my flower shots, if you want to shot handheld at f/1.4 with a Nikon you will have to use other means like focus bracketing or a magnifier of some sort. Ming Thein wrote an article about manual focusing recently that can be worth reading for a DSLR user.
philber wrote:
Nice shot! Does it mean that you have your Otus issue resolved?
Not that fast That was shot weeks before.
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joakim wrote:
I was using a tripod and live-view for my flower shots, if you want to shot handheld at f/1.4 with a Nikon you will have to use other means like focus bracketing or a magnifier of some sort. Ming Thein wrote an article about manual focusing recently that can be worth reading for a DSLR user.
I hand hold and focus by OVF most of time. Giving me enough time, I don't have issue nail focus. 135mm is even easier. The problem for me is time pressure for anything moving.
taking random pictures around my house because i could for the time being lol. but heading to my brothers car meetup tomorrow. hopefully ill get to take pictures of some rice rockets and beaner mobiles.
I think that if Zeiss comes out with a wide angle in the 24-28mm range that match the 55 Otus in quality I would be very happy with a 2 lens setup for landscape complemented with the 135 APO for a little more reach even if 24-28 isn't that wide.
It's a great opportunity to use the lens. Your photo's show lots of creamy bokeh and great sharpness in the focal plane (of the subject wasn't moving ).
Congrats with your dad btw.
U.C. wrote:
It's a great opportunity to use the lens. Your photo's show lots of creamy bokeh and great sharpness in the focal plane (of the subject wasn't moving ).
Congrats with your dad btw.
thank you!
This little fellow was in no great hurry and just walked around on this flower so I had plenty of time to fire of a bunch of shots to get some that was in focus. Nikon D810 with Otus 55 and extension tube.
That was shot weeks before. 
