Visited family in Sweden during Easter.
#1 and 4 are from C/Y 28mm/2.8.
#2 from C/Y 85mm/2.8.
#3 and 5 from C/Y 18mm/4.
Btw. I shouldn't have looked in this thread. Now I have severe cravings for the FE 35/1.4! Argh!! Originally I wanted the Contax 35/1.4 and I had decided not to get any native lenses, but we'll see how it goes...
Jack, thank you
Phillipe, very nice
Michiel, wonderful as always!
Helena, there is always a beautiful elegance in all your photos!
twoeye, stunning!
Phillip, love your style.
seriously, the quality of photos recently in this thread is nothing short of amazing! I felt this thread has the edge over the ZF/ZE/ZM thread during its glory.
Phillip, twoeye, Helenan & Charles, great work on this page. Please no more FE 35 photos
Jack, Helena, Charles, Joshua, Phillip, Michiel, twoeye, Philber, and everyone from the last several pages....
Nothing short of outstanding!! Stellar images all!! This thread is pretty damn awesome!
A couple from Easter...A7rM
Gregg
Btw, the MD 35-70/3.5 macro has no problem keeping up with the A7rM sensor! Quite incredible for a legacy lens!!
Couple more with the Leica M 75 Summarit on the A7rM
Gregg
Charles, please stop showing the versatility and sharpness of the FE 1.4/35!!! I scarcely convinced my wife that I "needed" an a7ii, under the pretext that I would not need lenses - or would certainly wait before getting any...several months, I believe I said. Granted, she should realize that my cabinet would not be full of lenses if I had willpower, but she probably expected that I would last more than a week or two.
Grenache wrote:
Charles, please stop showing the versatility and sharpness of the FE 1.4/35!!! I scarcely convinced my wife that I "needed" an a7ii, under the pretext that I would not need lenses - or would certainly wait before getting any...several months, I believe I said. Granted, she should realize that my cabinet would not be full of lenses if I had willpower, but she probably expected that I would last more than a week or two.
Jim...totally understand! But, ask your wife how many pairs of shoes she has?? Justification
Samuli-esque shot (in theme, not in quality of execution)
The tree just touched the house-under-construction, it's a miracle the damage is so limited. In Finnish forests it is no problem if a tree falls, in Amsterdam it is.......
JocoFoto wrote:
Samuli-esque shot (in theme, not in quality of execution)
The tree just touched the house-under-construction, it's a miracle the damage is so limited. In Finnish forests it is no problem if a tree falls, in Amsterdam it is.......
yes we have all the room for falling trees our problem is that we don't let the trees fall and remain in ground to provide an opportunity for lots of flora and fauna species to grow on rotten tree material = lack of biodiversity caused by people.
Under pressure finding matching photo....searching....found: Loxia 2/50 @ f/2.8 - not a pretty photo but thread quality has been pretty good in past few pages so I can post ugly photo I skrewed up underexposing atleast 2/3 stop, and light was 100% overcast and still Loxia managed to pull subject out from the background pretty well. I start to like Loxia more and more.
Too bad he didnt compared it to zm 50 planar also.
Sorry to be little negative side here; I'm not sure what this should tell? She/He compares one scenario of least interesting property of lens (sharpness). Contrast cannot be evaluated from shots as light is pretty different between the shots (and average viewer doesn't make difference between contrast and sharpness...not even when they try).
Also she/he doesn't know what she/he is talking about - she/he says G45 "full frame sharpness is achieved from F5.6 onward." is just pure lie, look the MTF those curves aren't gonna going to raise from the 0% by closing down one more stop.
Is sharpness is what one wants then this is no-brainer: just take the FE55, it's sharpest @ f/2 in infinity and has least field curvature in infinity of the 3 mentioned lenses.
Choice will become more difficult if you care other factories. FE55 will never produce as good boke as Loxia 2/50 (or G45 at f/2.8 and smaller apertures). Criteria for better boke: smaller contrast in boke than in focus plane, smoother boke structure/texture. Also there are usability differences; G45 has ultracrappy focus feeling (unless you do "frankenzeiss"), FE55 has crappy focus feeling and Loxia 2/50 has one of the best focus feelings I have been able to experience this far. Both new lenses are better for close ups than G45 (criteria for better: contrast, aberrations - on boke quality G45 still beats FE55 10-0 if closed down to f/2.8 or more). Also both new lenses have 9 blade round aperture and G45 has six blade - this can become factor as well. Not sure why he didn't mention any of this really important stuff on her/his "review".
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
Also she/he doesn't know what she/he is talking about - she/he says G45 "full frame sharpness is achieved from F5.6 onward." is just pure lie, look the MTF those curves aren't gonna going to raise from the 0% by closing down one more stop.
Samuli
Actually, from my copy, I observe the same thing. f/5.6 and f/8 give perfect result to the very tip corners; I would dare say that it surpasses the FE copy I tested at these apertures. The thick filter stack on the A7 series really degrades the corners on the G 45 due to the induced field curvature. I suspect on a Leica MM, it would match very well with the FE from f/2.8 on.
hiepphotog wrote:
Actually, from my copy, I observe the same thing. f/5.6 and f/8 give perfect result to the very tip corners; I would dare say that it surpasses the FE copy I tested at these apertures. The thick filter stack on the A7 series really degrades the corners on the G 45 due to the induced field curvature. I suspect on a Leica MM, it would match very well with the FE from f/2.8 on.
Are you sure? Also on sagittal detail? On tangential detail it may appear so but the 40cycles/mm sagittal is going to be very crappy even on film, not talking about thick sensor stack Sony's. On large detail even at measured f/4 on Zeiss MTF is pretty ok (10cycles/mm).
On closer distances corners will be better as lens extension makes the "bad part" of the MTF go away from image area and enlarges the "good part" of MTF to image area. The Zeiss MTFs are measured (unless otherwise stated) at infinity.
PS. Non of this corner crap & field curvature stuff isn't going to matter much if one shoots real 3D subjects. However for brickwall shooters they are very meaningful, as well as landscape shooters if there are big enough field curvature issues as they are most visible in infinity from sharpness perspective.
Originally I wanted the Contax 35/1.4 and I had decided not to get any native lenses, but we'll see how it goes...
