Another portrait with the Zeiss 85/4 Tele-Tessar, wide open, i.e. at f4. This is the second time that I use this lens, so its too soon to make any judgement of it. Nevertheless, the initial impression is that it has a very typical Zeiss rendering, with lots of "pop" and high micro contrast. Bokeh seem to be quite smooth, but notice that the rings become somewhat more cat-eye like near the edges.
The second photo is taken with the C Sonnar 50 at f/2.0 (I prefer f2 over f1.5 due to smoother bokeh at f2). This lens has a very special rendering, especially in the out of focus areas, that makes it my favourite portrait lens (by a large margin). Bokeh rings are circular all the way to the edges, and bokeh retain some structure, albeit without having the edges around the bokeh rings that so many lenses have. Its definitely not a lens for everyone, but for me it has become a favourite.
This is a pretty amazing page, but then so was the last one!
These two are with the CV 35 1.7 on A7R2. The second shot has some slight posterisation (I think that is what it is anyway!) in the Flickr jpeg so it will be interesting to see if it shows up when the image is posted here. I have another shot with a much bigger posterisation problem which I am trying to resolve so any ideas on this would be much appreciated.
AGeoJO wrote:
Another image captured from the session "What dreams are made of"
Joshua, how can you have a lens almost impossible to find? BTW congrats for the new entry and thanks for sharing... I hope to have the opportunity "to rent" your lens for some shots next
I took my 94 year old Father on a 500 mile round trip last week to visit family and we normally overnight in a very ordinary Travelodge in a rather un-beautiful bit of S Yorkshire where we hail frrom. It was wet and windy - but the dawn on Tuesday delivered a little better.
Hand held thro' small gap in open window - A7RII - first with 40mm M Rokkor
avalon27 wrote: Callanish Sunrise by xpfloyd, on Flickr
I would almost give a body part to have taken that - superb and atmospheric!
Thank you very much!!
ManuelLaMantia wrote:
Joshua, how can you have a lens almost impossible to find? BTW congrats for the new entry and thanks for sharing... I hope to have the opportunity "to rent" your lens for some shots next
Eddie, impressive captures and congrats also to you for your new entry... if I'm not wrong...
Manuel
Thanks Manuel (my new entry?)
Todays walk with an A7s and my cheap and cheerful Canon 18-55 IS ii kit lens used full frame on a ultra cheap Fotga smart adapter.
Ok, it is hardly going to be a contender for lens of the year but for a cheap 24-55 stabilized AF (slow) lens on my A7s, I think it will do fine for snapshots.
ManuelLaMantia wrote:
Joshua, how can you have a lens almost impossible to find? BTW congrats for the new entry and thanks for sharing... I hope to have the opportunity "to rent" your lens for some shots next
Manuel
Where there is a will, there is a way , Manuel. I received mine quite some time ago, just didn't have the opportunity to actually use it for real life shooting.
The GM lens is a breeze to use for portraits with the Eye-AF capability of the A7r II but it is facing a tough competition in the bokeh department for the lens used for this image captured at the same photoshoot. Don't get me wrong, the GM lens can be zoomed to a FL behind that to render the bokeh that again competes with the ZA 135mm f/1.8 lens. I will post images that show the characteristics later. I am still going through the images I took from last weekend. The drawback of the ZA 135mm f/1.8 lens right now is that it feels cumbersome to use; better said, it feels outdated in the AF department.
digital_AM wrote:
Joshua, very captivating portraits. Well done!
Amazing capture, Rich. The Blue Angels will be performing next weekend in Baltimore's Fleet Week. Of course we don't have the dramatic settings like San Francisco. I go to airshows 6, 7 times a year but I am not using my E mount Sony cameras for that purpose. for me, it is still DSLR's forte, until Sony makes an FE 100-400m... One can always dream.
