Haha funny story ! How can people buy 1700$ things without reading, or seeing pictures about it...?
I knew what I was paying for, a bit blurry but bokeh monster on a 50ish lens.
It turned out to be a sharpness monster but, because of the progressive focus zone and the field curvature, cameras struggle a lot to make a good focusing and if you try to focus with an outter focus point, you have to be very lucky. It's not easy to have a tack sharp wide open picture, but it is possible as you can see in my picture. No blur, no fuzz, just a sharp eye and everything else is starting to go out of focus gently.
Just tried mine on the D810 and it doesn't seem to require AF-Fine tuning on this body. On my D7000 it needed between +5 and +9 (because of the massive focus shift).
used the 58 for more car pictures. i dont get the Bokeh like you do on people portraits just because of the distance i have to be at but i still love using this lens. it lets you get wide and still get shallow DOF
Just repurchased the 58G. It came in today. I just couldn't replace the bokeh and focal length.
The Sigma 50mm 1.4 EX (non art) came really close in terms of the quality of bokeh, but the 58's extra bit of compression makes a world of a difference for subject isolation and bokeh compression.
It's expensive, but I managed to somewhat offset the cost by paring down my lineup to the 20 1.4, 35 1.4, 58 1.4, and 135 1.8
nextelbuddy wrote:
used the 58 for more car pictures. i dont get the Bokeh like you do on people portraits just because of the distance i have to be at but i still love using this lens. it lets you get wide and still get shallow DOF
nextelbuddy wrote:
used the 58 for more car pictures. i dont get the Bokeh like you do on people portraits just because of the distance i have to be at but i still love using this lens. it lets you get wide and still get shallow DOF
Ok guy, fill me in on what you did! I see you dropped this baby, coils or springs?
New wheels look like they're offset, what's your tire size width? They look like 295's for me
Any camber?
So happy I gave this lens another shot. There's some absurd copy-to-copy variation. This new copy I just bought is absurdly sharp...sharp enough to shoot alongside the 35 Art and not notice a large drop-off in sharpness.
But look at that bokeh! The bushes were only 2 or three feet behind her, yet they got turned to lovely mush. There's no other lens this wide that can still give that taste of compression and smooth bokeh.
eke2k6 wrote:
Just repurchased the 58G. It came in today. I just couldn't replace the bokeh and focal length.
The Sigma 50mm 1.4 EX (non art) came really close in terms of the quality of bokeh, but the 58's extra bit of compression makes a world of a difference for subject isolation and bokeh compression.
It's expensive, but I managed to somewhat offset the cost by paring down my lineup to the 20 1.4, 35 1.4, 58 1.4, and 135 1.8
Elijah wrote:
Ok guy, fill me in on what you did! I see you dropped this baby, coils or springs?
New wheels look like they're offset, what's your tire size width? They look like 295's for me
Any camber?
love these!
thanks man!
its a 2003 ZHP 330i sedan with a full M3 conversion.
S54 swap
suspension
brakes
rear diff/lsd
DGR coilovers
all poly bushings
wheels are XXR 521 with gold rivets 18x10 in the back on 245 tires so it has a slight stretched look.
