jon.pictures wrote:
How many of you 40mm F1.2 owners have a lens hood for it and if so do you use the rather pricey Voigtlander one or a 3rd party option?
The E-mount version has a small hood included in the box and the M-mount version does not. I suppose you referred to the somewhat pricey M-mount optional Voigtländer hood (it's not suitable for E-mount version of the lens). As far as I know there's no separate optional Voigtländer hood for the E-mount version.
Love and hate for the lens, every time I use it. I love the handling, the focal length, the sharpness, the colors, the speed... Hate the high contrast bokeh, totally random transition zone and funky corners even stopped down a lot.
Knowing that you have to use a meta-bones adapter, how do you think the Nikon 50mm F/1.2 compares? I have the Zeiss Milvus 50mm F/1.4, Nikon mount, and it is quite fabulous. However I was thinking about getting the 50mm ai-s F/1.2.
Makten wrote:
Love and hate for the lens, every time I use it. I love the handling, the focal length, the sharpness, the colors, the speed... Hate the high contrast bokeh, totally random transition zone and funky corners even stopped down a lot.
Knowing that you have to use a meta-bones adapter, how do you think the Nikon 50mm F/1.2 compares? I have the Zeiss Milvus 50mm F/1.4, Nikon mount, and it is quite fabulous. However I was thinking about getting the 50mm ai-s F/1.2.
Allow me to respond briefly.
Funny you should ask that, but I've just started fooling around with my nikon 50/1.2 although I'm not using it on a sony cam so take it for what it's worth.
I've been using the cv 40/1.2 on the fuji gfx 50s and love it. It can be sharp and will lose vignetting when stopped down. I think it can serve as an all a rounder lens though I use it with canon close-up achromatic adapters mostly where it shines for things like flowers and even portraits, I believe.
Now to your question. I find the voigt to be sharper wide open by a bit but although I like the bokeh a hell of a lot, the nikon is exceptional if you can find it in your heart to love it for its imperfections which is what this lens is about. Right now, I've only been fooling around and haven't even processed yet, so I'm primarily reacting to what I've seen on the lcd as jpegs. It is an incredible lens and significantly different form the cv40/1.2, doesn't replace it, and is in a class all its own. You either love it or hate it.
It's worth exploring, but if what you're about is sharp, sharp, sharp and perfection in corners, et all, I'd move on. I like perfection too: that's what my Otus is for and fuji gf native lenses. But when I want to be crazy creative I look to adpated lenses and both these two are great and provide adequate coverage even on the gfx. By the way, for anyone so inclined so does the zeiss 35 f2; it is also fine on the fuji and is better for landscapes and the like.
best regards,
Joe
PS: excuse please any typos, bad gram, it's late and I'm exhausted.
imagesfromobjects wrote:
A few recents. I taped over the contacts, but these are all wide open on a7S.
That first picture... Man, someone's going to have a baaaad time.
So I rented this lens to review...and I was hoping that I'd find it OK, but nothing great, but man....now I have the urge to sell my 35/1.4 and 55/1.8 for this and the 50/1.8. Would love to swap the 35 for the 40, but don't really have the cash to spare for it at the moment. Argh.
Fred Miranda wrote:
Lovely image Danny. Was this wide open?
Thanks! Yes, wide open. It may have had a 500D on top of it - offhand I can't remember since I did a lot of shooting in the 4 days I was at Sleeping Bear, and much of it was rushing against the light and/or wind.
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DannyBurkPhoto wrote:
Thanks! Yes, wide open. It may have had a 500D on top of it - offhand I can't remember since I did a lot of shooting in the 4 days I was at Sleeping Bear, and much of it was rushing against the light and/or wind.
It looks like you did. Looks great at that distance.
Steve Spencer wrote:
Lovely Danny. I grew up not too far from Sleeping Bear Dunes and it is very lovely place. I hope you have some others to show us as well.
Thanks, Steve. I remember your mentioning that after I posted some things from my Sleeping Bear trip last October. There's a good chance I'll go again around mid-October of this year.
I'm still working up images from the trip, but I've posted a few to the big Sony thread; I did about half with visible light and half with b&w infrared. Shamefully, I think this was the only one I did using the 40/1.2. I didn't come across many subjects that were suitable for wide-open treatment this time, so I was using a variety of ZE, Milvus, Loxia, and Otus lenses stopped down.
This lens is fantastic. Just two quick shots from a company event last night. I didn't use it much, as I needed AF for the most part, but I do love the look here...it really pops.
