Carl Zeiss Planar T* 2/45 @ f/2, 1/40s, Sony A7r @ ISO 100, B+W Kaesemann Circular Polarizer 46mm
If I would like pixel peeping this would be "the lens", not the resolution but the microcontrast... unfortunately I'm more boke lover, and it takes f/2.8 or f/4 to make this one work.
the ravens like to play in the thermals around the cliffs edge, so i figured i'd go down and see how the a7 + R 350mm did for tracking BIFs. sadly the ravens seemed to have sensed something amiss with the big lens instead of the usual tourist p&s cameras and i only got that one pass. after that they kept their distance. i'll have to go back a few times and see if they get used to me.
anyway, here's a few shots from the canon FL 55/1.2 wide open:
Experiment. This shot is a one of a kind. I took a Fotodiox helicoid adapter and mounted my CV Nocton 50mm F/1.1 lens to the A7r. My light source was a single low wattage desk lamp. I set the A7r on Scene/hand-held twilight. There was so little light the shutter was between 1/15 and 1/25 and it fired about five times --- slowly while I tried to hold steady. I knew I would get very shallow depth of field but I didn't think Sony could composite such an unsteady shot and maintain anything in focus. The results were surprising. I going to play with this some more. It is easy to forget the A7 and A7r have some built in features that give interesting results with manual lenses.
