You'll no doubt notice the deficiencies of the OM 24 2.8 wide open in the Milky Way shot. Im looking to pick up something else before my trip to Iceland in November for wide shots.
...Hmmm, you mean the coma artifacts? (Is that spelled correctly?)
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
is a special lens .. great bokeh "little dreamy" like it very much and I use the close focus adapter ...
Have not test it very much on what it really is for .. portraits and possibly street shots ... hope get the chance now when I start my vacation starts on Monday and hope to have more time ..
I think is a lovely lens and it has character,
planar 50 ZM is certainly a safer card...I think it lacks sonnar character
But planar is really good on the A7 .. have a friend who has it and it performs really well
possibly better than sonnarn ... but as I said sonnar has more character wide open
my thoughts anyway
and I think it works great on the A7 .. very small and lightweight lens with nice build quality
sebboh wrote:
so many great shots on this thread, i can't keep up.
found my vivitar komine 28/2 "close focus" lens that i had completely forgotten about and tried it out yesterday. all at f/2 and near mfd:
That bokeh rocks! I must have this lens....
Now then, two from the Leica-R 90/2. The flower was probably at f/5.6 with the close focus diopter on, the second was at f/2 I believe (or maybe f/2.8, but it had enough CA that I think it was f/2), me practicing focusing with my daughter riding almost straight towards me, cropped.
When I got the A7r, I thought I could take some decent pictures of the Moon. I took several with many systems, including astronomical movie cameras. The dynamic of FF and this marvel was promising a lot. But I'm now in a new home, with only a balcony for shooting, and thermal conditions are extremely bad when you are beyond 400 or 500mm. The no removable first curtain is another issue, in fact the worse of a long list with city light pollution and more.
But the Moon is one of easier sky objects, due to its great luminosity. I tried with many focal, the way is still long, but here are my first results.
First the awesome quality of the frame, with FD 200 f4 macro :
Possibly the last pano I'll shoot on the Mamiya Auto-Bellows rig with the a7... because I got my a7r today. But I didn't have a chance to set it up before I shot this pano test with the Hassy C Planar 80/2.8.
Other kind of subject, Since three months, I wanted to tell how the Canon FDn 50 1.4 is an awesome old piece of clear glass, even if this lens is well known.
I took a test photo of the ugly Opera concert house of Bastille. The 50 is wide open at 1.4. 125 ISO, and 1/1250. Time is 7pm in May.
Here is a crop of the left bottom corner. No CA, no blur. I guess this lens is as sharp than my FE35 2.8. No distortion, and a beautiful bokeh (not the fd200 macro which is fabulous as Rokkor's ones, but really nice, sometimes beautiful WO, not far from the best).
I got it for 130$ and it was like just out of the box. The price is even high. But stellar optics are rare and expensive. Here, it's a gift.
freaklikeme wrote:
...The a7 will still my daily shooter, no doubt. I'm not giving up the EFCS.
I have either an A7 or A7R with me every day, like the first year I had an M9. But every time I use the A7R, I curse those who decided to settle on its clacking shutter system. If I have a winner of a shot, though, I forget about the shitty shutter while exploring the depth and tonality of whatever that gorgeous sensor captures.
This is a weird one, this guy with athletic shoes, who otherwise ticks most of the visual "I'm Jesus" boxes, just popped out of the metro one day and stood there, facing south and soaking in the nearly-solstice setting sun.
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