A couple of images; I'm having fun. It's so good wide open (and has such nice bokeh) that at last I'm getting what I've wanted for years: a wide lens that gets lots of background in but softens it up so that it's legible but not distracting. Every super fast 24 I've used before I've always been tempted to stop it down a bit, which defeats the point.
BTW: don't panic about what looks like a wide open sunstar in the second image! I blended in the star from an f6.3 frame....I wanted the star and the bokeh.
Kristie at Collector, a revived ghost town now selling farm produce.
Longevity Crane at the Friendship Garden, Canberra
The first Mollis Azaleas of the Australian Spring!
GMPhotography wrote:
Just received the lens. Took a few snaps as i have the grand kids today so cant do much but EYE AF dont miss PERIOD. Its also very sharp wide open.
This maybe one lens I’m comfortable at shooting 1.4. I’ll have to see more about this on a center test tomorrow if 1.6 or 1.7 maybe better but 1.4 looks really sharp. When I say comfortable I mean more client comfortable
The whole PF was blown out of proportion. This lens has about 2-pixel worth of that when it manages to crop up. AF is very silent but not 55/1.8 or 28/2 fast. I feel it's about the same as my ZA 50/1.4 or a tad faster.
All WO just cause I can. Some quick shots around town.
Got this lens on Saturday (even though it was scheduled for Monday - thanks FedEx!) Overall, I have to say I'm very impressed. I'd still like to do proper landscape and astrophotography testing... but overall I'm really liking it. It might even replace the Sony 55 1.8 as my always-on lens. I was expecting it to be small... but this is much lighter and smaller than I expected it to be. I'm really, really surprised they were able to get a lens of this size out. Very impressed.
If you haven’t used 24mm extensively, keep in mind that to avoid distorted facial features you really need to step back from a subject person and keep them within the middle third of the frame. I’m just figuring this out with the 24GM, it’s really different from a 28mm.
sebbe wrote:
Gladly it's rainy and very ugly at the moment here. But the term "wide 85GM" is poison for my mind.
Same weather in Sweden! This is one sweet lens 😊
