Samuli Vahonen
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mjm6 wrote:
Shows how subjective things like bokeh are... I find the nervous, double image rendering horrible and would not want to use that for landscapes. Stopped down, it is probably a non-issue, but wide open, it only serves to detract from the image.
Horses for courses, as they say.
I appreciate the ability to see images like this because like it or not, it helps inform my 'eye' for how I would prefer to manage a similar image (either through a lens purchase, or decisions made in the field).
Michael, exactly right!!!!!!! That is the richness of Alternative Lenses forum, here we see various rendering styles of lenses presented. You most likely would prefer this lens closed down to f/2.2 (medium distance) or f/2.5 (close distance), where boke is almost without character (some earlier posted photos, don't want to repost, so just links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), but it might still have too much texture for your taste(?). Usually I use these "best apertures", but occasionally I prefer more rough rendering and use f/1.7. But it sounds (what I'm reading between the lines) that you would prefer more dead plastic boke = most likely Sony 35mm f/1.4 would suit your style much better. BTW. this lens has 3rd and again different boke rendering when shoot wide open (you also don't like that rendering style...)
Thanks to the forum I have seen enough of rendering style of FE28, FE1.4/35, FE24-70 and FE16-35 to understand that they are not for me (Thou I might be forced to get FE28 for aerial multirotor photography as it's so lightweight, if Batis 25 is too heavy). I could have avoided FE35 and FE55 as well, if I would have had enough patience to see enough pictures from them - But patience is not one of my virtues, and I got both of them as soon as they become available and soon realized that I don't like them. As a end result I don't currently shoot with them, and they wait for next event requiring AF (and where rendering style is irrelevant). To get some use I borrowed them to a friend. This year needed them only once for a funeral shoot as mostly my cell phone takes the photos, for which I would use them for.
My creative process may differ from majority, I want my tools to suit the situation. When I go shooting, I pick set of lenses, which rendering style matches my mood (and location/subject) - I rarely change lenses in the field. I mostly pick Zeiss ZE-series set (thou only 2 metabones EF adapters, have to use Loxia/G45/CY etc. as 3rd lens) but also Leica M set (may mix with Leica R 28 or 180), Contax C/Y set, Leica R set, Contax G set will see a lot of Finnish nature. Or if I want something completely different maybe Olympus OM set or Pentax K set. I shoot 90% of time with 3 cameras and I want the set of lenses will match each other quite well on rendering style and boke characteristics. Also sometimes I just go crazy and use for example 3 different normal lenses with completely different rendering styles like Contax G 2/45, Helios 44M-4 2/58 and Porst 1.4/55.
My worst nightmare for lenses would to be locked on shooting characterless lenses, which have nothing else to offer than sharpness and dead plastic boke (=kind of lenses, which might be "mathematically" very good and do well in in tests). That would be really boring for me. For sure sometimes that is also what I prefer (well, sharpness, can't see any reason to prefer dead plastic boke). So yes horses for courses, would not want aggressive hot blooded racing horse for lazy romantic Sunday ride even it's generally considered as the best horse... or a lazy donkey for a race 
Image thread, something to post...searching...found:
Carl Zeiss APO-Sonnar T* 2/135 @ f/2.8, 1/15s, A7 @ ISO 100, Carl Zeiss T* POL Filter (circular) 77mm
Samuli
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