I thought this is supposed to be a problem lens on the a7. Looks ok to me, edwardkaraa wrote:
A7 and ZM 35/2 do street demonstrations for the first time.
F/8 and zone focusing, no time to focus accurately
Nice shots. Is this the MD 35-70/3.5 Macro version? That is shaping up as a killer combo with the a7.
ebookman wrote:
Late afternoon light with fog developing. Very warm and somewhat un-natural light. A7r with Minolta MD Zoom 35-70 mm on beach shots and Zeiss Jena 135 mm F/3.5 for sea gull.
waterden wrote:
Nice shots. Is this the MD 35-70/3.5 Macro version? That is shaping up as a killer combo with the a7.
Yes, it is the macro version and a wonderful lens to just leave on the camera. I find that on the A7r it does exhibit some vignetting at 35 mm and I have to correct distortion if I am not watching my horizon at 35 mm. All easily corrected in LR but a noticeable difference from my experience on the Nex 5n and Nex 6.
Thanks! I'm really liking what I've seen from the lens so far. The bokeh and pop are quite nice and I don't really feel like I'm missing much despite it being "only" F1.8 We'll see how I feel about it after the holidays when I should have some more free time to shoot (well, at least "not at work" time ).
steve g wrote:
Morpheus I love these images. The bokeh on this lens looks very promising.
Must resist FE 55... I really wanna give the camera 6 months and see what comes out. I'll just have to stick to my legacy 50-ish lenses. I am hoping for a Touit style lens in the 50 range.
zephoto wrote:
Must resist FE 55... I really wanna give the camera 6 months and see what comes out. I'll just have to stick to my legacy 50-ish lenses. I am hoping for a Touit style lens in the 50 range.
Great shots Bob! The FE 55mm seems to share much of the RX1 Sonnarīs character, they will be a great pair I think. My FE55 is on its way but will not be here in time for christmas. Looking forward to testing it.
Thanks! There's definitely some 3D character to this lens and it's definitely Zeiss! It's a fun and easy lens to use. AF works great and it's pretty quick too!
Michael, can you share what in-camera and post-processing was applied to this photo? The photo displays very strongly the concentric magenta circles that some testers have reported previously in more contrived testing. In your flickr stream another photo that seems to have been taken with similar conditions and settings does not show them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/108011263@N05/11461630324/. I was under the impression that these circles would only show when contrast and saturation were pushed heavily, but your photo doesn't seem to have heavy processing applied.
I'm surprised to see such a strong effect in regular photos with both the FE35 and FE55. Does anyone know if this has something to do with the concave front elements, or is this due to either post-processing or in-camera lens corrections gone awry?
Will look into that akuba; I decided to turn off in-camera corrections for a couple of days to see what, er, developed. It may not be such a good idea to do so.
I'll take a look at that image but bet I have Adobe's lens profile turned off too. If I recall correctly the conclusion I came to was that in-camera did a better job than the Adobe profile but want to be sure.
akuba wrote:
I'm surprised to see such a strong effect in regular photos with both the FE35 and FE55. Does anyone know if this has something to do with the concave front elements, or is this due to either post-processing or in-camera lens corrections gone awry?
akuba wrote:
Michael, can you share what in-camera and post-processing was applied to this photo? The photo displays very strongly the concentric magenta circles that some testers have reported previously in more contrived testing.
This occurs on many camera/lens combinations. I see it often with my D800 as well, mostly in areas with lots of tonal gradation like skies and nighttime scenes. The effect can be exaggerated on Sony bodies when vignetting correction is enabled (see my RX1 example here). Iliah Borg gave this explanation (on a dpreview thread):
"Lens effect is more or less because of the interreflections between the (concave) rear element and (thick) protection glass on the sensor, sometimes reflections from aperture too. Microlenses can add some of kaleidoscope effect, or just colour variation, to the generally red bubble."
It's a feature snapsy, not a problem. The world needs more kaleidoscopes and this is Sony's evil secret plan. When I get back to my desk I'm going to see what combo the image in reference used. That same day I'd done a test series with the FE35 with in-camera correction on|off and Adobe corrections off|on and all on, all off, but damned if I can remember what state I left the camera in for that particular image.
