Samuli Vahonen
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redisburning wrote:
@Samuli nervous bokeh and slightly different characteristic make me prefer G45 to slightly recalculated ZM50P those all look great to me and I think we all know  kids like their lenses with a bit of electricity in the background (jk sebboh)
 G45 definitely has "electricity" in boke. I don't think I can use it for my forest shooting, maybe it works on easier urban boke scenarios. However now I have crazy sharp landscape lenses from 35 to 55 (FE35, G45, FE55), can't wait for summer and do more landscapes (or forestscapes) maybe, to not get bored to all boke shooting (highly unlike that it will happen  )
charles.K wrote:
Wonderful images to all here!!!
Shots from last night. A7r and FE 55, in low light conditions. I am having a lot of difficulty in making sure features at infinity are nailed focus wise, in low light. AF is not accurate here, so I revert to MF. I am getting one shot in four that are 100% in focus, with shutter speeds at 1/125s. I would appreciate any help here? Last shot at 6400 ISO, f/1.8, pushed +1.5 in PP'ing.
Also the EVF with the FE 35 and 55 work perfectly well, compared to the issues I was having with the dark EVF with the 50 Cron Rigid DR. I don't fully understand this mechanism here yet!...Show more →
I would never trust contrast based AF, when situation requires ISO 6400, to scene where there are no clear contrast edges. I assume you tried to focus scene like your night cityscape photo, and it would be enormous luck if your camera could pick the lighs of buildings from the noise, which all look about the same when you are ISO 6400 situation.
Focus scales have not worked for 10+ years for accurate work.
Why not just manual focus to lightspots (make the spot go as small as possible, then it's sharpest)?
BTW. Practical hint for low light situations; disable the "Live View Display" --> "Setting Effect ON". Then your camera tries to focus wide open instead shooting aperture. This of course doesn't suit for lenses, which have focus shift, but I haven't seen anyone report focus shift with any of the FE-lenses.
Contax G90 seems extreme competent on all areas, where f/2.8 is sufficient and actual macro lens is not needed. Reminds me of C/Y mount Sonnar 2.8/85, but this one is better wide open than the C/Y version I had was.
First series: long/medium distance boke. For my use this is "main usage", and any lens not performing on this finds more time on shelf than my camera back bag. As far as I see this is about as good as it gets. Very surprised that <200EUR lens performed this well. Due to light weight and small size, this lens is most likely permanently located in the bag.
Boke quality, contrast and colors, contrast edge issues (CA etc.) and sharpness are all better or equal than Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm f/3.5 SL (EF mount). Voigtländer is better on close-ups and "semi-macro" since G90 focuses only to 1 meter. Also Voigtländer is nicer to use due to the EF-mount (I prefer electronic aperture, and of course real helicoid is better than adapter turning autofocus skrew...).
#1 Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 2.8/90 @ f/2.8, 1.3s, ISO 100, A7
#2 Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 2.8/90 @ f/2.8, 1/4s, ISO 100, A7
#3 Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 2.8/90 @ f/5.6, 0.8s, ISO 100, A7
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