Jannik Peters wrote:
Great! The lens doesn't have the best reputation but the bokeh seems to be very nice. Did you correct the chromatic aberrations?
Thanks Jannik. As you say, the lens does not have the best reputation and it does suffer some chromatic aberration if provoked! I did manage to produce some when testing it initially but for normal use (given the focal length and what I might generally be pointing the lens at) I have not had any problems at all. I really like the lens and, as you say the bokeh is pretty good. Helped on this occasion by the grey misty bokehery sort of day!
So, to answer your specific question, this shot had no chromatic aberration corrections in PP. It is the MMJ version.
I took the same shot this morning with the C/Y 100 3.5 and, unsurprisingly, the results are similar
Jochenb wrote:
Because of this I also tried more than one adapter... but still the same results.
Adapter has no effect on field curvature on simple lenses like this (no floating element(s)).
Jochenb wrote:
For example: when I shoot a larger free standing tree that's at a distance of +15m and focus on the center of the tree... The zone of focus goes from almost my feet to the center of the tree and back towards me at the top. The bottom and top of the tree are out of focus. With careful focus you can get the whole tree in focus, but the focal plane is always much more curved than when I used the lens on a Canon camera. I hardly had any weird surprised, just like you. It was great for landscapes. Most ZE/ZF lenses that I shot on the A7 were fine, but this one and the 18 are most problematic for me.
It'll be interesting to see how the lens works for you on the A7 cameras. ...Show more →
Found suitable samples photo! It was shoot with A7 and ZE1.4/50 (my library is little bit mess at the moment, I have moved half of the stuff out from Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom and it's nicely on my own Linux system, and half is moving somewhere on random 3.5" disks sitting under my sofa or somewhere...).
This was shoot @ f/5.6 and left and right edges are clearly much more worse than I would assume based on 5DmkII memories. Naturally it's not perfect example as I was not exactly 90 degree angle compared to opposite shore of the small swampy forest pond - had to turn image 0.7 degrees counterclockwise to make the shoreline straight.
Webthumbnail:
My copy has always had slightly worse right side, when pixel peeping 100% or larger, but now on A7 right side is a lot more crappy than left side, already visible on this webthumbnail size (made even worse by having low contrast pine on right edge and high contrast spruce on left edge...).
Link to original size JPG (just output of dcraw.c, not rotation to straighten the horizon etc.): 12M JPG.
HOWEVER I don't think that this is as bad as you describe your lens to be? Or does this look as bad?
Interesting to see does this ZE 1.4/50 performance improve with Kolari modification.
Clearly sebboh's Rollei has better sharpness on zone C. Next I try to find boring all sharp landscape shots done with Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 C/Y, which I may have somewhere even I rarely shoot those in Finland due to geography (flatness of land).
I've been thinking about my lens line up a lot these days. Contemplating selling the FE35/1.4 for the smaller Loxia 35/2. Don't even ask me about the Loxia 21 and now Batis 18! I pulled out of the caverns my Zeiss Planar 50/2 ZM with plans to sell the lens to fund these other new lenses. So I took it out today at noon to do some shooting before putting on the board.
Have you ever had that OMG moment to say, 'why has this lens been just sitting in the closet'. Yes, I have the FE55/1.8 but I really like this lens and it's quite sharp WO. Nothing so artful here, but the clarity and sharpness just kind of blew me away. The downscaling to post here will certainly not show off the sharpness (at least the lazy way I do it). I'll have to find the money for new glass elsewhere . . .
BTW - what is the best way to sharpen for posting here? I know there were some posts years ago . . .
This is taken with a Sigma 150 f2.8 DG HSM macro lens, Canon EF on Metabones III. It is a lens I nearly sold because it would not work properly with the A7, in that trying to AF the camera stopped responding and I had to power off. But after the recent firmware upgrades, to both A7II and Metabones adapter, it started working properly and even autofocusing, much as it would on a Canon.
'. Yes, I have the FE55/1.8 but I really like this lens and it's quite sharp WO. Nothing so artful here, but the clarity and sharpness just kind of blew me away. The downscaling to post here will certainly not show off the sharpness (at least the lazy way I do it). I'll have to find the money for new glass elsewhere . . . 
