GMPhotography wrote:
You know we talk a lot about the background bokeh but very little of foreground bokeh and honestly I absolutely love how it renders the foreground more. Just draws your eye into the sharp part of the image so nicely. Folks try some shots like this. I think you will love that look too.
Is this what you are referring to? I stopped down to f1.8. It definitely sharpens up a bit. The flowers don't know what to do. It will be 70-degrees in a couple of days.
GMPhotography wrote:
You know we talk a lot about the background bokeh but very little of foreground bokeh and honestly I absolutely love how it renders the foreground more. Just draws your eye into the sharp part of the image so nicely. Folks try some shots like this. I think you will love that look too.
ylimehajile wrote:
Is this what you are referring to? I stopped down to f1.8. It definitely sharpens up a bit. The flowers don't know what to do. It will be 70-degrees in a couple of days.
Yes see in that image and really all images your brain thinks and will look for the sharpest or clearest piece of the image. I call it drawing you in . It’s like composition leads your eye in the image but really the sharpness will do more to lead you in. Having nice foreground bokeh will lead your eye into the critical part of the image. It’s how our brain works. Take advantage of that in your shots. It’s a very powerful tool.
Lenses like this is what we lovingly call the look. We have a lens hear that has unique qualities too it.
imagesfromobjects wrote:
The rendering/vibe is very similar - painterly character and sharp center wide open, crunchy egde-to-edge sharpness from f/4 or so.
Thanks, nice to know. Was like this with Fuji? Yeah I really liked FF, but I really couldn't tell the difference with most of my shots if it was FF or crop (I shoot a lot with focal reducers or f/1.4 and f/1.2 glass on Fuji), especially when used the same lens like Minolta 55 with FF or Fuji & focal reducer. Had the A7II for a year and loved the IQ I got from it. I just decided to go Fuji way for other reasons. And now I would really love to have a great feeling manual glass that performed close to the XF35/1.4. Might pull the trigger with Nokton.
cswinton wrote:
Where would you all recommend I order this lens from since it's back-ordered again everywhere? Who has the best chance to get it back in stock next?
CameraQuest.com. Guy mentioned another location a few pages back in this thread.
There's a chance not everyone likes theirs. You may find one on the B&S forum in the next few weeks....possible.
cswinton wrote:
Where would you all recommend I order this lens from since it's back-ordered again everywhere? Who has the best chance to get it back in stock next?
I received this lens yesterday from CameraQuest and took it out for a spin. It was quite fun, it's a lens that makes you giddy. I fell right into photo taking flow, probably from seeing the nice crisp and clear dof separation, and nice contrast through the viewfinder. Another fun aspect was not caring about the exposure time at all .
One thing that did bother me a bit was the field curvature. I tend to place the subject in the center, focus, and then recompose. However, whenever I do this with the 40mm at f1.2 the subject is not as crisp as it was when I focused. So I had to focus with the subject in place, which sadly adds some tediousness (I use focus magnification). What do you people do about this? Hope my copy's curvature is not more pronounced than usual :|
I'll do some tests the following days to look at curvature and sharpness. For curvature, I'll shoot the same subject focused in center vs focused in center and recomposed vs focused directly in final composition.
I received this lens yesterday from CameraQuest and took it out for a spin. It was quite fun, it's a lens that makes you giddy. I fell right into photo taking flow, probably from seeing the nice crisp and clear dof separation, and nice contrast through the viewfinder. Another fun aspect was not caring about the exposure time at all .
One thing that did bother me a bit was the field curvature. I tend to place the subject in the center, focus, and then recompose. However, whenever I do this with the 40mm at f1.2 the subject is not as crisp as it was when I focused. So I had to focus with the subject in place, which sadly adds some tediousness (I use focus magnification). What do you people do about this? Hope my copy's curvature is not more pronounced than usual :|
I'll do some tests the following days to look at curvature and sharpness. For curvature, I'll shoot the same subject focused in center vs focused in center and recomposed vs focused directly in final composition.
I received this lens yesterday from CameraQuest and took it out for a spin. It was quite fun, it's a lens that makes you giddy. I fell right into photo taking flow, probably from seeing the nice crisp and clear dof separation, and nice contrast through the viewfinder. Another fun aspect was not caring about the exposure time at all .
One thing that did bother me a bit was the field curvature. I tend to place the subject in the center, focus, and then recompose. However, whenever I do this with the 40mm at f1.2 the subject is not as crisp as it was when I focused. So I had to focus with the subject in place, which sadly adds some tediousness (I use focus magnification). What do you people do about this? Hope my copy's curvature is not more pronounced than usual :|
I'll do some tests the following days to look at curvature and sharpness. For curvature, I'll shoot the same subject focused in center vs focused in center and recomposed vs focused directly in final composition.
Nice work!! If you're talking about street type shots or moving subjects, yes f/1.2 is difficult with off-center framing of subjects. You can use peaking on "low" and just look where the center of the peak line is on the ground where your subject is standing, "tuning" back and forth, you'll see the line move. You can actually do the same thing with peaking off, there's a ripple where things are in focus- just use the ground (or similar stationary objects with contrasty edges) to pre-focus and fire away. I've learned to become friends with burst mode, too.
cdmihai wrote:
Hello forum!
I received this lens yesterday from CameraQuest and took it out for a spin. It was quite fun, it's a lens that makes you giddy. I fell right into photo taking flow, probably from seeing the nice crisp and clear dof separation, and nice contrast through the viewfinder. Another fun aspect was not caring about the exposure time at all .
One thing that did bother me a bit was the field curvature. I tend to place the subject in the center, focus, and then recompose. However, whenever I do this with the 40mm at f1.2 the subject is not as crisp as it was when I focused. So I had to focus with the subject in place, which sadly adds some tediousness (I use focus magnification). What do you people do about this? Hope my copy's curvature is not more pronounced than usual :|
I'll do some tests the following days to look at curvature and sharpness. For curvature, I'll shoot the same subject focused in center vs focused in center and recomposed vs focused directly in final composition.
