sebboh, zhangyue and Steve Spencer - Thanks for shooting advice with Rokkor 58, I'll bring today tripod so I can try f/2 and f/2.8. I have also feeling that f/1.2 images will become pretty nice with post processing:
1. raise black spot from default value.
2. in PhotoShop adjust local contrast with USM (15%, 40px or thereabouts)
3. Adjust RAW software saturation slider [need to find it first, using temporarily other RAW software since Apple haven't added support for A7] - this might not be even needed, at least Zeiss lenses give rich saturation as long as exposure is right and blackspot adjusted correctly.
#12. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/100s, ISO 200
#13. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/100s, ISO
#14. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/100s, ISO 160
#15. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/125s, ISO 100 - at large distances the subject isolation isn't as great as I would have wished for - unlike Zeiss Planar 1.4/50 (whatever version) Rokkor has been optimized to close distance shooting - hopefully FD 50/1.2L is better in this (I have seen samples indicating that)
BTW. Funny thing about this image: I had focus peaking on even it makes focusing more difficult, but just wanted to understand how it works. And according to it the building was in focus. Can't understand how video guys can use focus peaking, maybe implementation is better on video cameras or there is adjust-ability how it works.
#16. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/100s, ISO 400
#17. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/80s, ISO 100 - I liked very much how well Rokkor did this quite challenging background (of course it was quite easy in that sense it's so blurred)
Here are two shots I captured with my a7 and Zeiss 50's via Metabones adapter (Mk III). These are also the first photo's I've shared here. I hope to get some more up here after the new year when I come back from being on holiday. The second photo was shot landscape and cropped for portrait. Was lucky to capture the shot either way.
Christmas Bokeh by Alpha Geist, on Flickr
Sony Alpha a7 w/ Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* via Metabones adapter @ f/1.4
Face Palm by Alpha Geist, on Flickr
Sony Alpha a7 w/ Zeiss 50mm f/2.0 Makro-Planar ZE via Metabones adapter @f/2
Finally some Christmas vacation and with that some time to spend with my A7r and different lenses. First out was the Zeiss ZE 35 f/1.4 Distagon and Zeiss ZE 85 f/1.4 Planar.
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
#15. Rokkor 58/1.2@f/1.2, 1/125s, ISO 100 - at large distances the subject isolation isn't as great as I would have wished for - unlike Zeiss Planar 1.4/50 (whatever version) Rokkor has been optimized to close distance shooting - hopefully FD 50/1.2L is better in this (I have seen samples indicating that)
Samuli
for subject isolation at a distance the rokkor won't be near as good as the zeiss 50/1.4 because of the spherical aberration profile (stopping down to f/2 might change this comparison), but if your rokkor isn't MUCH sharper at infinity than it is up close there is something wrong with it.
