My eyes play tricks on me when editing. I need to get some grey cards and a color checker to keep myself sane. In my eyes, the previous photo was grey! I came back an hour later and saw purple. Have been messing with my R5's color for a bit. Started out too green initially. The longer I play with it the wonkier it gets. Anyway, here is another where I tried to get the colors perfect. The background is Savage Fashion Grey. When I compare these 2 side by side, the new one looks almost green, but when I look at it solo it looks grey to me.
BigBabyMoses06 wrote:
I'm amazed with some of the detail in the photos here. I have to work harder than I was expecting with my R5 and RF85 to get very detailed shots, and it's also proven to be a bad lens for action (for me). I've tried using it for dogs and it fails pretty bad every time. Too slow to focus, and it has a very hard time finding dog's faces and eyes at 1.2. Seems to work better closed down.
Best scenario I have found for the lens is the studio with flash, though I still have to raise the sharpness considerably.
It sounds like you need to get your distances dialed in for shooting f/1.2, you are probably too close to your subject. When you shoot at the right distance you'll get what this lens is intended for, which is to shoot at f/1.2. People don't buy this lens to stop it down, that's a waste of money. Try putting your R5 on the floor and open the flip screen, @ f/1.2. If your cat or dog is willing, move it farther and farther away until you get the desired output from this lens. Literally leave the R5 on the floor to shoot (or outside on the ground), hopefully in some good light, with plenty of open space (distance) behind your subject. Eye/Face detection should work just fine. Not everything will be in perfect focus because of the shallow DOF, but when done properly enough of it appears in focus for the desired look of an f/1.2 image.
Took this lens out paired with an R3 on a shoot over the weekend. What a workhorse. Backlit + extremely fast subject at 1.8 (yes, I stopped it down to give myself some buffer and to try and retain SOME sense of location) and it just nailed focus so often. Could never have gotten such a shot with the old EF version - or if I did, I would have been lucky, as opposed to needing to scroll through keeper after keeper.
Very impressed.
Resizing compression is not doing the below image any justice...it's razor sharp.
Adam Jones wrote:
Took this lens out paired with an R3 on a shoot over the weekend...
Man, he/she is literally *flying*!
I'm impressed that the 85/1.2 can track that kind of speed. Haven't tried it with the R5 (I've only had the 85/1.2 for a couple weeks), but may be something I should do :-)
I made this photo backstage at a small town rodeo with the 85mm strapped to my r5. Winning his event that night, the rider suffered a broken nose & eye sockets during his saddle bronc run. I followed up with him afterwards, he seemed to be feeling mostly fine with only a 3-4 week recovery time.
This one is from 2024... it's the Rho Ophiuchus complex near galactic center. It's a stack of eight (tracked) 30s exposures at f/2.2 and ISO 3200 on the R5.
I had missed this thread - having acquired 85 1.2 about a year ago, it has quickly become my fav lens; It is sharp at all apertures and subject distances, something that is hard to find elsewhere. Plus the perspective is something that helps me remember what I saw
