chez wrote:
I love manual focus for landscape images...don't shoot them any other way. But for anything that moves, I just cannot warm up to MF as I miss too many of those special moments that I know I would have captured with AF. This is especially true for the faster apertures which have very little room for focus error.
So for even casual outings...I just don't want to miss a special moment due to focus so I stick to AF for everything other than landscapes.
What lens do you use for your casual outings then? Sony's lack of a compact AF 35/1.8 and 35/2 is what is forcing some of us to use MF for casual outings.
I am also warming up to the idea of not rejecting OOF pictures when I curate and present an album to friends and family. The album shows a wide range of focus quality - some images are clearly OOF to anyone, some are 95% to 99% in focus and most people will recognize it as in focus, and then there are the 100% in focus images that simply pop.
The OOF rendering of this lens (along with my CY 35-70 and Nikkor 50/1.8) are pleasant enough that the picture just looks like a low quality image but still gets the point / intention across. Does this happen often with many other lenses? Usually when my intended subjects are OOF from an AF lens, it's because the camera picked up on something totally different than I intended, so the subject is terribly OOF, instead of almost in focus. Let me look for an example where the OOF CV 40/1.2 image works for my currently low / non-professional standards...
Just joined the forum and also just ordered the CV 40 1.2 because of this thread. Thanks for making it a fairly easy decision haha. Will pair it up with an a7rII woot!
Recently upgraded from an a6000 so this will be my first full frame lense with the exception of two adapted lenses from a film camera (50mm f1.9 and 200mm f4).
Obliterating detail..... just out of interest - see what happens. Without my aperture being reported I can never be certain but I am sure this was at f/2.8 and f/1.2. For perspective, the flat grey area on top of the highest tier is about the size of an eye so was pretty close to MFD.
Busy, bye bye.... even the totally distracting stick right next to the subject has faded dramatically.
I generally love what happens to backgrounds (and foregrounds) with this lens, but I can't yet predict it at all. I am guess-remembering f1.7 for this one, but the subject is much larger and both me and the background considerably further away.
Masonry and flowers
The high key look is partially deliberate, partially a result of mad vignette correction being applied in LR. I guess it is for f/1.2 as that is the aperture reported regardless of actual*. To my tastes it is a bit too much correction, even for f/1.2
* This is a lens with an electrical/ contacts issue and is going to be replaced this week.
Note that there is a slider on the profile correction for how much of each correction to apply, so if it's overcorrecting for vignetting, you can back it off there.
PaulMaewpa2 wrote:
Obliterating detail..... just out of interest - see what happens. Without my aperture being reported I can never be certain but I am sure this was at f/2.8 and f/1.2. For perspective, the flat grey area on top of the highest tier is about the size of an eye so was pretty close to MFD.
I generally love what happens to backgrounds (and foregrounds) with this lens, but I can't yet predict it at all. I am guess-remembering f1.7 for this one, but the subject is much larger and both me and the background considerably further away.
The high key look is partially deliberate, partially a result of mad vignette correction being applied in LR. I guess it is for f/1.2 as that is the aperture reported regardless of actual*. To my tastes it is a bit too much correction, even for f/1.2
* This is a lens with an electrical/ contacts issue and is going to be replaced this week....Show more →
Jman13 wrote:
Note that there is a slider on the profile correction for how much of each correction to apply, so if it's overcorrecting for vignetting, you can back it off there.
Yes, thanks - I so rarely use that I had forgotten about it! I'm not sure backing off the correction for f/1.2 would get me to the right correction for f/2.8 but definitely worth a try. Anyway, I will have my fully operational new lens from next week.
And no harm done in this case. These are not shot for keeping - just playing and seeing what happens to the backgrounds/ foregrounds under different scenarios. Still got the L-plates on with this lens - something weird about it (maybe I should say "special" as for me it is very good weird, not bad weird but I don't want to prematurely "gush" ).
Being in Thailand, when smog allows there is a serious temptation to put sunstars in everything. Seems that sunstars are a bit like children - it is easy to develop a blindspot for how naughty your own are.
I've decided there is no compositional justification for this shot other than this composition created the clearest sun star! It was supposed to be about loneliness during the holidays but I moved the camera to my left and made it all about the sunstar! Buyer beware.
Sony ILCE-9 Voigtlander NOKTON 40mm F1.2 Aspherical ISO 250 Focal Length 40.0 mm Aperture f/1.2 (actually f/8 I guess) Exposure Time 1/400s
How about some grey brutalism? I'm not too happy with the composition, but was happy to take a quick snap while the sun was out today after two bleaky weeks.
Sony ILCE-7RM3 Voigtlander NOKTON 40mm F1.2 Aspherical ISO 500 FOCAL LENGTH 40.0 mm APERTURE f/? (guessing f2, but your guess is as good as mine) EXPOSURE TIME 1/80s
Sony ILCE-7RM3 Voigtlander NOKTON 40mm F1.2 Aspherical ISO 100 FOCAL LENGTH 40.0 mm APERTURE f/? (thinking f1.2) EXPOSURE TIME 1/400s
Has anyone had experience with a "Sonoptor f=115 close up lens"? I got an old one handed to me tonight and it's got a 58mm thread so you know it's gotta go on the cv40/1.2
I recently bought the Voigtlander 40mm f1.2. On the aperture ring, between f1.2 and f1.4 --- f1.3 actually registers on the camera and you can take a photo at f1.3 even though its not supposed to be an option. Other between stops don't register. Does anyone else's lens do this? Or is this some kind of bug?
