Just received Batis 18 yesterday. Hard to believe it has been five years since it was introduced! Conditions were not raining, but certainly very little sunlight available!
The lens is much lighter than I expected, and not too large without the hood mounted. I used a Hoya HMC Super filter to protect from any elements (I normally don't use filters).
As reviews have said, the central area is extremely sharp wide open at f/2.8, and best overall frame coverage seems to be my typical f/8.0.
Here are a few of the first images around an older part of Aberdeen.
a7R4, Batis 18, LR
Out my front door.
Single frame scene (cropped), same subject as one I shot a few days ago as 2-shot pano with Loxia 35. Different time of day and weather.
Lost -- wet camouflaged psychedelic cat! :) This is about as close-up as the lens gets.
I posted two images of the solo owlet recently, In total there were actually 4 images in the series. I am posting the last one together with the one I already posted 2 years ago (sorry), which I thought was the most photogenic here...
Gunzorro wrote:
Just received Batis 18 yesterday. Hard to believe it has been five years since it was introduced! Conditions were not raining, but certainly very little sunlight available!
The lens is much lighter than I expected, and not too large without the hood mounted. I used a Hoya HMC Super filter to protect from any elements (I normally don't use filters).
As reviews have said, the central area is extremely sharp wide open at f/2.8, and best overall frame coverage seems to be my typical f/8.0.
Great work as usual. I have been thinking about this lens myself.
Looking at the forest made up of Pine Trees and undergrowth.
Tripod mounted A7r Kolari Vision Thin sensor V3 camera and Leica M 90mm f2.5 Summarit lens.
ISO 100, f11?, 1/160 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.49 Stops.
November 30, 2020
At Marjorie Harris Carr Baseline Road Trailhead Park, Ocala, FL.
Early spring. A foggy morning on a sunny day at the beginning of March. The rising sun illuminates the misty plowed fields, on which fresh, green cereals sprout. Larks are singing in the sky.
