What do you make of that? Seems like rather different outcome on A7 and A7r -- and what's with the weird arc on the A7r shots?
Well, I'm a bit wary of any PP done to JPGs :-)
But, this looks to me like effects of Cornerfix with a not-quite-right calibration file (then jacked up w/ the vibrance - if it looked this bad, it'd be the completely wrong calibration file).
I tried to shoot yesterday. Unfortunately, there's no support for A7 in DxO Optics Pro yet, and Darktable which I participated in development for has no proper color profile yet. I tried to use custom ICC instead built upon CMP4 color target, but either I set flashes focal length too long (105 or so), or there were problems with synchronization and electronic first curtain (top of the target was dark), so failed to do this properly. Thus end up with flat colors what won't allow to make color rendition assumptions and make images looking not as good as they could be.
And I am afraid the real shooting experience turned to be even worse than I firstly imagined. Inspite they improved zone choose interface (first choose a zone with little rectangle, then magnify) it isn't near as fast as using touch screen. There's a feature with AF lenses: you can press middle button and camera will track an object that was in focusing area. IMO it is even better than touch screen, but unfortunately it doesn't work with manual lenses, which is silly: it looks like it uses pattern recognition only, so nothing would prevent it to be used with lenses with unknown focal length. In this case camera will be highly usable for me, I could live even with fixed EVF (and one used in A7 is excellent: large and clear, it's hard to miss focus with it).
Using EVF in case of quite widish lenses (50 and wider) is not I find acceptable: distortions become too pronounced shooting from eye level, the camera need to be move down to the chest or stomach level.
Emacs wrote:
There's a feature with AF lenses: you can press middle button and camera will track an object that was in focusing area. IMO it is even better than touch screen, but unfortunately it doesn't work with manual lenses, which is silly: it looks like it uses pattern recognition only, so nothing would prevent it to be used with lenses with unknown focal length.
Taylor Sherman wrote:
Well, I'm a bit wary of any PP done to JPGs :-)
But, this looks to me like effects of Cornerfix with a not-quite-right calibration file (then jacked up w/ the vibrance - if it looked this bad, it'd be the completely wrong calibration file).
I agree that it's unfortunate that I only have access to the JPG.
But I highly doubt he used anything like Cornerfix -- because the point of the set was to show what the corners looked like -- one set comparing the CV 35 1.2 on A7 vs A7r, and another set comparing the FE 35 on A7 vs A7r (no discernible difference with the FE 35).
So, I don't think there was any Cornerfix involved. The shape of the arc in the A7r shots makes me think something is missing that couldn't be 'recovered' -- but yes, it's a problem that it's a JPG -- but I would have guessed similar artifacts on both sides.
turnstyle wrote:
Is that object tracking -- or "eye AF"?
Does it work with an FE lens set to manual focus?
It's not an eye AF definitely.
Will try it with my old 18-55 kit to be sure (it doesn't differ from FE anyway functionally-wise).
Putting out a request for more shots take with, and recommendations for, smallish short teles on A7/A7R. I got an A7 and plan to use my OM 21/3.5 and ZM 50/1.5 and 50 Cron R lenses on it, but want a short tele in 85-100mm range. Have a Nikon 85/1.8 G for my soon to go D800 that seems to work well based on a few quick shots, but there's no pleasure focusing or changing aperture with that thing.
darrellc wrote:
Putting out a request for more shots take with, and recommendations for, smallish short teles on A7/A7R. I got an A7 and plan to use my OM 21/3.5 and ZM 50/1.5 and 50 Cron R lenses on it, but want a short tele in 85-100mm range. Have a Nikon 85/1.8 G for my soon to go D800 that seems to work well based on a few quick shots, but there's no pleasure focusing or changing aperture with that thing.
I plan to use the Voigtlander 90mm f/3.5 that I've also used pretty extensively on Nikon FX bodies and the NEX-6. It's a very good compact lens if you're okay with the speed, and you should be able to pick it up pretty easily. I haven't tried it on my A7, as I don't yet have an F-E adapter, and have to cludge an F-M and M-E adapter combo to try out my F-mount glass.
The Nikon 85/1.8 D lens has an aperture ring (as do all D nikkors) and is a very good and compact lens which is pretty inexpensive. I'm going to be trying mine one of these days soon.
Kyoto by Jeff Laitila
