Note: My TIFF got corrupted somehow after editing this for an hour. I was able to somehow export a jpeg version but without my usual output sharpening workflow applied.
San Antonio skyline. I captured the clouds using the SR app. This is 4 different images blended to balance tones and for light trails. I may crop this to 16x9 but I'll present the original size here.
Alpha-mount (SLR) Planar T* 1.4/50 is interesting lens, it's clearly having characteristics of traditional Planar (double gauss) lens, but at same time having higher performance on focus plane due to special glass used and instead of focusing traditionally by extension it has internal focusing (may have effect to rendering style vs. traditional double gauss??). On soft light it renders really beautifully, but when background contains high contrast detail it does struggle quite often and renders boke more harsh than I would prefer.
I'm afraid that in 2019 this lens doesn't get much use as I will mainly use ZE-series "classic" 1.4/50 and Sigma Art 50, this lens is between of these two from many points of view;
a) boke&transitions are never as good as ZE "classic" @ f/2.5-2.8
b) focus plane technical quality is behind Sigma...
c) ...but focus plane rendering style is better than w/ Sigma (specially in landscapes) but worse than ZE "classic"
Sony Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM @ f/2.0, 1/80s, Sony A7r @ ISO 100, Haida NanoPro MC C-POL 72mm
Sony Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM @ f/2.2, 1/125s, Sony A7r @ ISO 125, Haida NanoPro MC C-POL 72mm
Sony Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM @ f/2.2, 1/50s, Sony A7r @ ISO 100, Haida NanoPro MC C-POL 72mm
Sony Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM @ f/2.2, 1/200s, Sony A7r @ ISO 100, Haida NanoPro MC C-POL 72mm
, well done!
