Until the next great 50 comes long?!?!?
Ouch!
Ok, I know I have a problem....but this lens is really nice. And it has AF, which I don't use often(enough), which is pretty singular. And the rendering...well, it's damn nice!
50/1.4@f4, 1/320mm, iso 100. Still not quite used to the idea that this big lens is a 50mm lens. However, by the end of this year, Leica SL 50/1.4 summilux should come out using 82mm front filter. It will make Sony with 72mm front filter size look reasonably sized, I think.
Greggf wrote:
Ouch!
Ok, I know I have a problem....but this lens is really nice. And it has AF, which I don't use often(enough), which is pretty singular. And the rendering...well, it's damn nice!
Hey, it takes one to know one. I'm the same with 35s and now the Leica R 28 is stuck on my camera! Perhaps there's an Otus in your future!
Greggf wrote:
Here's another landscape grab near wide open. This lens continues to stay on my camera!!
Gregg
A7rll and FE 50 1.4 ZA
@f1.7
Gregg, it takes a great photographer to put such a nice tool to good use, too .
I can see why this lens impresses you, though. If you had stripped the EXIF, I for one wouldn't have been able to guess that those were (almost) wide open shots.
I had a friend's copy for a couple of days and it took me about 15 minutes to go from curious to covetous. So I sold off my a7II and a Hassy C-lens I'd forgotten I owned and put my order in. First factory fresh lens I've purchased since the kit zoom that came with my original a7, but I want to be able to cherry pick in case I lose the QC lottery. This lens is worth the expense, time and effort.
I see that, Gregg, and you're putting it to very good use. And I strongly agree. It's a technical camera-quality lens designed for an SLM. It is all about the details.
Thanks very much for the above comparos, suteetat, in very tough conditions. Wonderful hue separation, excellent depth perception from the Leica. Extremely good tone separation at the limit, which is my (individual) preference.
The f8 set are particularly revealing, though not a core role of this class of lens for many users. At f5.6 the APO 50/2 is doing ~80% for 40 lpmm everywhere, better than the Otus 55 IMO. It would be good to see other makers head down this design path some day - a center-focused lens at f2 leading to what you see below at f5.6-f8, all in a 300 gram package.
Alexluu627 wrote:
The 55mm f1.8 is sure making the new 50mm f1.4 look over priced and to big for what it should be.
Disagree. I've used both lenses, and I now own he 50/1.4. It's wildly stellar - easily the best 50mm lens I've ever used - and I've used a LOT. This Sony at 50/1.4, even at $1,500 is worth every penny to me. I prefer it over any Leica 50 I've ever used. ...although I do have a fondness for the 50 Lux field of curvature on the Sony camera bodies.
...and this lens can do one thing the 55/1.8 can't do. And that's shoot at f/1.4.
As for Bokeh smoothness. You be the judge - and I can live with the minor rings in the leaves.
LBJ2 wrote:
F1.4 Bokeh! Sony FE 50 F1.4 @ 1.4 AF (Top). Sigma Art 50 F1.4 Amount @ 1.4 MF with La-ea3 adapter (Bottom). SOOC raw processed for jpeg upload tp FM.com via LR6. Both handheld. I think I turned off EFC. Not sure if changing sunlight/clouds or T-Stop resulted in different shutter speeds as both images were fired in Aperture mode. Interesting differences in color between the two lenses. Note: There is a light pole along the right edge of the FE 50 F1.4 image that I didn't crop out.
Looks like you moved closer for the Sigma lens shot than you did compared to the Sony lens shot.
The 50mm f/1.4 is OUTSTANDING. My final verdict, for me much nicer then the 55mm f/1.8 which is still a winner also, but the 50mm has that look, that rendering that I love, it has the MOJO, and is Hepkitty approved!
^^^^^As noted above, this lens absolutely the best 50 I've used, and sits only just behind the 50 Lux ASPH , as far total rendering(on an A7rM, that is) that the Lux is known for. This is REALLY, REALLY sharp wide open, it's unbelievable. It's the same @f1.4 as my old Loxia 50 @f2.5 was!! And the Pop/3Dish is the bomb! AS Lucinda pointed out above! Super grab!!
Gregg
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Yes, have to say it is great. Was initially suspicious. We went to a big store the day before to buy either the Nikon 105/1.4 or 24-70GM to get an addition to our wedding gear. The Nikon was nice, but slow focussing (a specialist tool for certain situations, however surprisingly very sharp). The Sony was a bit underwhelming at 70mm, the weather sealing rubber gasket is a joke (not sealing the mount, you could see light shining through, similar to reports from other people). We went out with the 50/1.4 and used it already for a full day wedding reportage yesterday. Still tired, but what I saw from it was very convincing.
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