No Photo right now, but true that lens is big and heavy and very good of course.
The size of the cam does not matter with glass like this. Last time i used that lens was still on film and a Leica R6...
The monopod was not the right choice, tripod is definitiv better.
Has anyone tried the nikon 85 1.4 ais on the a7r?
Im trying to get a good manual lens; been so stuck on which manuals to get
I switching from either just having one lens - voigt 35 1.2 or having the nikon 28mm ais and 85mm ais
I mentioned earlier at some point that FE35 DOF can be really thin sometimes making for example landscape photography with foreground subjects difficult. I received some PMs and emails about this but didn't have sample image of this, but now finally found good image to demonstrate.
This was shoot f/11 and focus distance was something between 2 and 3 meters. More or less one would assume that everything would appear sharp (at this kind of web-size image), however as can be seen from background it's quite blurred and low contrast. On Lloyd's review he also mentioned that due to cross-eyed boke the DOF doesn't increase as usually (don't remember how exactly he said that, but something like this). On this photo boke is also OK from quality point of view, but it's quite simple and quite planar, without complex structures on various distances.
Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 2.8/35 @ f/11, 1/4s, Sony A7 @ ISO 100, Carl Zeiss T* Circular Polarizer 58mm
But i am way to slow (have always to take my glasses of to focus...) and lazy (probably to old as well) for kind like that ... 30m around my car and static objects are OK
And i have to confess: Neither birds nor cats are my preferred subjects....
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
This was shoot f/11 and focus distance was something between 2 and 3 meters. More or less one would assume that everything would appear sharp (at this kind of web-size image), however as can be seen from background it's quite blurred and low contrast. On Lloyd's review he also mentioned that due to cross-eyed boke the DOF doesn't increase as usually (don't remember how exactly he said that, but something like this). On this photo boke is also OK from quality point of view, but it's quite simple and quite planar, without complex structures on various distances.
I would expect noticeable background blur in this kind of web-size image with those parameters.
What is cross-eyed bokeh? Apparently it does not involve complex structures.
Toothwalker wrote:
I would expect noticeable background blur in this kind of web-size image with those parameters. our expectations are clearly different...
Toothwalker wrote:
What is cross-eyed bokeh? Apparently it does not involve complex structures.
FE35 has systematically ugliest boke at large enlargements/pixel peeping I have seen any lens to produce. BUT this only happens when background is on multiple depths and having transparency/holes, for example forest where there are branches from pine tree in 3m, then there is forest behind = really ugly boke. This poked my eye first time I brought FE35 to forest (see my post on page 21, post #2, photo 2 and 2b). Photo I posted above had rather "single distance" boke, so it looks rather nice on boke.
Term "cross-eyed boke" I learned from Lloyd, he mentioned it in this blog post and in corresponding paid article.
Samuli Vahonen wrote: our expectations are clearly different...
Samuli,
I suggest you go out and look at look at depth of field calculators for the parameters you have discussed in this respect. If you are focused at 2 meters, then having an OOF background is absolutely within expectation by about 6 meters or so. Even if you are at 3 meters, there will still be an OOF background, but it may be pretty far back, say, about 20 meters back.
Notice how rapidly the DOF collapses behind the focuc point as you go from 3 to 2 meters... you can't be casual about the distance in this kind of discussion because a small change in focus distance can create the appearance of differences in performance, when it really was a difference in the geometry of the setup.
In other words, you are not focused at a hyperfocal distance at f/11 with that lens and distance, so there is going to be clear differentiation in the subject/background rendering.
^^^Super^^^ I love them all and your other three post
Something similar on our way from Suzhou to Qingdao. They certainly enjoy the train riding.
55FE WO or f2.2 A7
... 30m around my car and static objects are OK
