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Archive 2021Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
p.41 #1Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
k-h.a.w wrote:
Thank you Jukkah for your sublime image.
Such wonderful mood and colors you captured.
K-H.
Thanks for your kind comment! I guess this was my last wintry shot of this season, now it's raining and +4 C.
Mar 14, 2023 at 12:44 AM
p.41 #2Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
50GM snapshot though window glass. Taken earlier this winter.
Handheld, @1.2, 1/50sec, ISO800. No corrections, 90% jpeg from Lightroom. Full-sized jpeg.
This lens is incredible.
Mar 19, 2023 at 08:36 AM
p.41 #3Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
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Mar 20, 2023 at 07:53 AM
p.41 #4Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
Some aerial action and a Chihuahua... 
Mar 20, 2023 at 10:44 AM
p.41 #5Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
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ILCE-7RM3 FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens 50mm f/1.2 1/8000s 100 ISO -0.7 EV
Mar 20, 2023 at 06:31 PM
p.41 #6Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
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Mar 26, 2023 at 05:54 PM
p.41 #7Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
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Mar 27, 2023 at 06:04 AM
p.41 #8Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
Grenache wrote:
...and a few from a senior portrait session.
Jim
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51392230322_887173ecd5_o.jpgThe path ahead by Jim
The girl on the right looks a lot like Irene Rudnyk.
...and a few from a senior portrait session.
Jim
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51392230322_887173ecd5_o.jpgThe path ahead by Jim
The girl on the right looks a lot like Irene Rudnyk.
Mar 27, 2023 at 12:58 PM
p.41 #9Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
I enjoy this lens for black and white conversion as well. Here are a couple wide open (A7R5).
https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Black-and-White/i-ZJSr629/0/d5494933/X2/_DSC1542-Edit-X2.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Black-and-White/i-CtFFHqx/0/2225c35a/X2/_DSC1548-Edit-X2.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Black-and-White/i-ZJSr629/0/d5494933/X2/_DSC1542-Edit-X2.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Black-and-White/i-CtFFHqx/0/2225c35a/X2/_DSC1548-Edit-X2.jpg
Mar 28, 2023 at 09:03 AM
p.41 #10Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
Just wanted to reiterate how incredible the lens is. Every Sony owner should have it. You won't regret it.
Images cannot show how satisfying and confidently those XD motors move this f1.2 glass.
Images cannot show how satisfying and confidently those XD motors move this f1.2 glass.
Apr 11, 2023 at 08:29 PM
p.41 #11Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
I agree… I just bought one with a new Sony A7R V and man that lens is sharp!. It’s my favorite for portraits and everything else. I took it out this evening and put it on my Skywatcher Star Adventurer (Astro tracker) and I took a one minute exposure of the night sky at f/1.2 just to test out the image clarity and if the stars were pinpoint to the edge or not…. They Were! All the way to the corners at 61mp… an excellent lens.
Apr 11, 2023 at 10:09 PM
p.41 #12Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
lensfan wrote:
Just wanted to reiterate how incredible the lens is. Every Sony owner should have it. You won't regret it.
Images cannot show how satisfying and confidently those XD motors move this f1.2 glass.
Agreed. I never cared for the 50mm focal length until I got to try out this lens. Always thought I was a 35mm guy. Nowadays, this lens is pretty much the first lens I reach for when I want a walkaround lens. There's an "it factor" this lens has that I don't see in any other 50-ish mm lens I've tried.
Just wanted to reiterate how incredible the lens is. Every Sony owner should have it. You won't regret it.
Images cannot show how satisfying and confidently those XD motors move this f1.2 glass.
Agreed. I never cared for the 50mm focal length until I got to try out this lens. Always thought I was a 35mm guy. Nowadays, this lens is pretty much the first lens I reach for when I want a walkaround lens. There's an "it factor" this lens has that I don't see in any other 50-ish mm lens I've tried.
Apr 11, 2023 at 10:26 PM
p.41 #13Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
devin.choi wrote:
Images cannot show how satisfying and confidently those XD motors move this f1.2 glass.Agreed. I never cared for the 50mm focal length until I got to try out this lens. Always thought I was a 35mm guy. Nowadays, this lens is pretty much the first lens I reach for when I want a walkaround lens. There's an "it factor" this lens has that I don't see in any other 50-ish mm lens I've tried.
Same here. I always had been shooting wider or narrower but today this fifty is my all-time favorite among any FL.
Today I have a couple other fifties (CV 50 APO-L for E Mount, probably the best manual fifty, and CV 50 1.5 Asph Chrome for M mount which has the best build quality I have seen). But 50GM takes the cake, it effortlessly nails that focus at 1.2 all the time. Such an easy to operate lens. IQ and bokeh is top notch.
lensfan wrote
Just wanted to reiterate how incredible the lens is. Every Sony owner should have it. You won't regret it.Images cannot show how satisfying and confidently those XD motors move this f1.2 glass.
Same here. I always had been shooting wider or narrower but today this fifty is my all-time favorite among any FL.
Today I have a couple other fifties (CV 50 APO-L for E Mount, probably the best manual fifty, and CV 50 1.5 Asph Chrome for M mount which has the best build quality I have seen). But 50GM takes the cake, it effortlessly nails that focus at 1.2 all the time. Such an easy to operate lens. IQ and bokeh is top notch.
Apr 12, 2023 at 04:52 PM
p.41 #15Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
Those of you who have owned both Voigtlander 40/50 f/1.2 and this lens, how would you compare the two lenses? I think I prefer character (flaws) of Voigtlander, but I am not a huge fan of manual focusing. For my needs (taking photos of my young kids), no AF in Voigtlander makes it pretty much useless and it stays more time in my dry cabinet than on my camera.
Apr 24, 2023 at 07:27 AM
p.41 #16Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
ramesesthe2nd wrote:
Those of you who have owned both Voigtlander 40/50 f/1.2 and this lens, how would you compare the two lenses? I think I prefer character (flaws) of Voigtlander, but I am not a huge fan of manual focusing. For my needs (taking photos of my young kids), no AF in Voigtlander makes it pretty much useless and it stays more time in my dry cabinet than on my camera.
I have the CV40 and the 50GM. I think they're complementary and the 50GM serves the gap of "I need to turn night into day" but with autofocus. The CV40 does have more character and unique rendering, but the 50GM isn't at all clinical in its images in the way I kind of find the 24/35 f/1.4s from Sony. Only downside of the 50 is that's it's definitely chonky and a little visually imposing depending on the context of your shooting.
Those of you who have owned both Voigtlander 40/50 f/1.2 and this lens, how would you compare the two lenses? I think I prefer character (flaws) of Voigtlander, but I am not a huge fan of manual focusing. For my needs (taking photos of my young kids), no AF in Voigtlander makes it pretty much useless and it stays more time in my dry cabinet than on my camera.
I have the CV40 and the 50GM. I think they're complementary and the 50GM serves the gap of "I need to turn night into day" but with autofocus. The CV40 does have more character and unique rendering, but the 50GM isn't at all clinical in its images in the way I kind of find the 24/35 f/1.4s from Sony. Only downside of the 50 is that's it's definitely chonky and a little visually imposing depending on the context of your shooting.
Apr 24, 2023 at 01:19 PM
p.41 #17Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
I too own both (CV40 is a fat declickable version).
I don't think of them as interchangeable they are for different purpose.
50GM is a ultimate can-do-it-all lens, while CV40 is an manual tool with an unusual combination of interesting features like fast modern dreamy f1.2, sharp stopped down, pleasing non-clinical rendering.
I don't think of them as interchangeable they are for different purpose.
50GM is a ultimate can-do-it-all lens, while CV40 is an manual tool with an unusual combination of interesting features like fast modern dreamy f1.2, sharp stopped down, pleasing non-clinical rendering.
Apr 24, 2023 at 08:13 PM
p.41 #18Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
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ILCE-7RM2 FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens 50mm f/8.0 1/250s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
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ILCE-7RM2 FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens 50mm f/8.0 1/100s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM2 FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens 50mm f/8.0 1/200s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM2 FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens 50mm f/8.0 1/160s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
May 06, 2023 at 02:02 AM
p.41 #19Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
Yeah, I have both and like you fine more uses for the 50 because of AF. Shooting kids and pets and stuff. But it’s just never going to be a lens I take out on a long hike out when I’m just exploring and farting around. Actually I did take it on a short hike with my partner along with the 100 stf and the 16-35 PZ (or20-70 f/4, I can’t remember). I was trying to see how realistic it would be to have a kit built around 72mm filters. The hike continued to sunset and the 1.2 did actually prove itself quite useful, and there were not many great views on that hike so most of the keepers were actually environmental portraits instead of landscapes.
But for actual backpacking, if I’m not expecting rain I’d rather have the 40 (maybe paired with the cv 15 and Samyang 75, all sharing 58mm filters).
ramesesthe2nd wrote:
Those of you who have owned both Voigtlander 40/50 f/1.2 and this lens, how would you compare the two lenses? I think I prefer character (flaws) of Voigtlander, but I am not a huge fan of manual focusing. For my needs (taking photos of my young kids), no AF in Voigtlander makes it pretty much useless and it stays more time in my dry cabinet than on my camera.
But for actual backpacking, if I’m not expecting rain I’d rather have the 40 (maybe paired with the cv 15 and Samyang 75, all sharing 58mm filters).
ramesesthe2nd wrote:
Those of you who have owned both Voigtlander 40/50 f/1.2 and this lens, how would you compare the two lenses? I think I prefer character (flaws) of Voigtlander, but I am not a huge fan of manual focusing. For my needs (taking photos of my young kids), no AF in Voigtlander makes it pretty much useless and it stays more time in my dry cabinet than on my camera.
May 06, 2023 at 08:29 AM
p.41 #20Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Image Thread
Untitled by Tyrone Barthelemy, on FlickrTension
May 09, 2023 at 04:22 PM