I've got one on the way. After about two years of being happy with the lenses I own, the dam has broken. First I got the CV 50/2 and tested it a little this week. Now I ordered this one from the current sale going on at CameraQuest and others.
I haven't been able to find any reference to whether it works in infrared, which I'm also hoping for. The CV 65 is not so great, but the CV 50/2 looks fabulous in IR. Though I don't tend to use longer focal lengths in IR, something about my IR eye. Visible-light photography I do tend to use longer lenses more than shorter ones.
I've already got the Sony 90 macro but for some reasons I almost never use it at all. I've tried to sell it a couple of times but I guess my price was too high. I think I remembered testing it and it being centered. I got it right when it came out, one of the two lenses I got with my first a7rii along with the loxia 50. Just somehow never clicked with it.
I've also got the Contax G90, which is what I use when I want sharp, and which I carry when hiking or traveling. Tiny. Lightweight. Sharp. Also often surprisingly nice bokeh though only an f2.8.
Then I took my favorite 90, the Olympus 90/2 macro, out for a clock tower test yesterday. I actually have two of these -- the one I've used and loved for about 3 years now is failing mechanically. This lens has always pleased me with pretty bokeh at any aperture, and I thought good enough sharpness. I bought another one, but I suspected it was optically inferior. Indeed, yesterday I found it doesn't quite make it to infinity before the focus ring stops. Maybe temperature -- the lens was about 40 degrees F I guess. I thought I had done a clock tower test on the first one when it was newer to me with good results, but it didn't do great yesterday. Nor did the second one. I was pretty surprised how badly they did in the infinity tests and corners at f 2, 2.8, 4. I'm going to repeat this in another spot in different light sometime soon. Maybe I'll sell both of these.
Oh, and I also have the Bokina, which I used a lot with good results until I got the Oly 90, and then I only brought it out of the cabinet a few times.
I know I've gotten some great results with the Oly 90 -- not just a visceral love of the lens. I've certainly gotten some great results with the Contax g90. I don't think I've gotten much with the Sony 90, but then I've not tended to carry it. I've got some time today and I'll scrutinize some images from these to sort out how I've done with them. And then I'll check out the 110. We'll see...
Damn, going through Sony 90 2.8 G images. I have been underappreciating this lens. I probably still won't like to carry it much or like the way it looks or feels, but I should use it more.
The Olympus 90/2 Macro, may suck at infinity, but it most beautiful at close and medium distance.
As for the Apo Lanthar 110, it does seem to work nicely on the IR converted a7rii. I didn't write any images on a card, but looked through the eye piece as I moved the camera around towards the hazy sun opening up and stopping down. I couldn't provoke any bad behavior, unlike some other CV lenses. So I'm very happy about that. I'll have to try really using it...
Vexilla regis prodeunt.....and so is with the ,(very), early spring this year...
The early spring has recently exploded 6 weeks ago ike never before and mostly by flowering cornucopia. For the first time in my life I could see the flowering of some rare species of trees, shrubs and flowers from North Africa, the Americas,Asia and Europe,that I have never seen before at this time of the year. A beautiful,unique mystery. :-)
Many of those fragile and tiny early spring flowers has a strong nature,that I can not show in my pictures,as their shy beauty,difficult to disclose.
A7R2+Voigtlander Macro Lanthar 110/2.5
Rhododendron dahuricum pleases me very often by scanty flowering in November or March.Didn't let me down this time again...:-)))
The bush I saw flowering in the early spring for the first time in my life :=).Doesn't look magnificent,but blooms it the very archaic (philogenetically) way.Astonishing experience for a deep-in-the-hearth-botanist like me :-)
And the rest - seemingly ordinary, but unusually flowering at this time:
