UGH... this lens may win me over. I'm thinking about reducing the redundancy of my kit. My 70-200 is my strong portrait lens and my 85 1.4g is great, but I'm wondering if I should dump that lens in favor of this 58.
The 58mm is nice! I have one but it doesn't get used much. I mostly use my Zeiss 100mm f/2 & 135mm f/2. I see good stuff here done with the 58mm, but everyone is always using it wide open, all the time even with group shots. That is crazy! Group shots should never be take wide open, it will be impossible to get each person in focus. I remember seeing some wedding group shots taken at f/1.4 with the 58 in this thread and I bet those don't look good at full res.
The 58 is nice and looks great at f/2 and up. F/1.4 is soft. I wish it was as sharp as my Zeiss lenses! Man those Zeiss lenses are amazingly sharp! I need to get my 58mm out again and shoot some more with it. I used it a lot as a landscape lens in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was great.
Todd wrote:
The 58mm is nice! I have one but it doesn't get used much. I mostly use my Zeiss 100mm f/2 & 135mm f/2. I see good stuff here done with the 58mm, but everyone is always using it wide open, all the time even with group shots. That is crazy! Group shots should never be take wide open, it will be impossible to get each person in focus. I remember seeing some wedding group shots taken at f/1.4 with the 58 in this thread and I bet those don't look good at full res.
The 58 is nice and looks great at f/2 and up. F/1.4 is soft. I wish it was as sharp as my Zeiss lenses! Man those Zeiss lenses are amazingly sharp! I need to get my 58mm out again and shoot some more with it. I used it a lot as a landscape lens in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was great.
Todd wrote:
The 58mm is nice! I have one but it doesn't get used much. I mostly use my Zeiss 100mm f/2 & 135mm f/2. I see good stuff here done with the 58mm, but everyone is always using it wide open, all the time even with group shots. That is crazy! Group shots should never be take wide open, it will be impossible to get each person in focus. I remember seeing some wedding group shots taken at f/1.4 with the 58 in this thread and I bet those don't look good at full res.
The 58 is nice and looks great at f/2 and up. F/1.4 is soft. I wish it was as sharp as my Zeiss lenses! Man those Zeiss lenses are amazingly sharp! I need to get my 58mm out again and shoot some more with it. I used it a lot as a landscape lens in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was great.
Shot the 58 with live view a bit more than usual and found the focus at f1.4 to be even sharper. Not that it isn't usable with the optical viewfinder, I was just pleasantly surprised with how it performed in live view.
Very nice! Yeah I've used live view before with the 58mm, it is better. That Nikon AF fine tune doesn't always work to well for me. The lens seems to back focus some, live view is a great way to go. This are sharp photos. Well done. I like the second one best.
chrisfphotog wrote:
Shot the 58 with live view a bit more than usual and found the focus at f1.4 to be even sharper. Not that it isn't usable with the optical viewfinder, I was just pleasantly surprised with how it performed in live view.
heres some more favorites from a client session. I love getting what I feel are all aspects of kids personality. Even have meltdown ones sometimes lol.
