The Sim 21mm is a quiet achiever, to my way of thinking. It's a thoroughly modern lens design with a Voigtlander 21/1.4 sourced design. Very high detail resolution is combined with an olde world photographic style. It has the trademark Thypoch bokeh and color, helped along by the 14 blade aperture, for a unique specification. And probably using wonderful lead - files are very bright, naturally saturated with high clarity, all these are key attributes of lead oxide. Files are easy to work with, very responsive. Nothing jumps at you, and it's very competent. I'm looking forward to a lot of use of it. I want to see how it works on a 61mp sensor.
How are people finding the 28 at infinity focus? I'm mostly happy enough with it at closer range but it just seems a bit soft at longer distance compared to shots from my CV 28/1.5 - though I haven't put them side-by-side long-range. It was a cloudy day and I haven't used it much long distance yet so probably jumping the gun a bit as usual but just curious.
It could actually be from my focussing itself. For whatever reason, some lenses I find to focus a lot easier using the viewfinder in the a7cii. Even if the end results end up looking similar in sharpness between lenses.
The simera 28 is one where I have a very difficult time. I remember saying "infinity focus is such a wide range on my 28" but that must be because I can't see any differences after within like 30 degrees of rotation there. I'll try focussing at infinity at f2 then stopping to f8 to see if it makes a difference. Hopefully no focus shift.
I'd love a button on Sony to increase the contrast or something when focussing through the viewfinder, or maybe those focussing aids will help, I tend not to use them at all after some mixed results (particularly when only zooming-in once) but I'll give it a go.
I feel the same, that the MF assist on Sony isnt very easy with my Simeras either. Found it easier with the Voigtlanders for some reason.
So Ive gotten used to focusing wide open and then stopping down, havent noticed focus shifts with the 35 or 50 simera. Dont have the 28 anymore, but found that one the easiest of the 3 to focus with the MF contrast colors on my Sony A7(r)3.
Great use of the 28 in Nederlands! I really liked the pic of the grass in the dunes from a while ago! Kudos!
Yogifi wrote:
It could actually be from my focussing itself. For whatever reason, some lenses I find to focus a lot easier using the viewfinder in the a7cii. Even if the end results end up looking similar in sharpness between lenses.
The simera 28 is one where I have a very difficult time. I remember saying "infinity focus is such a wide range on my 28" but that must be because I can't see any differences after within like 30 degrees of rotation there. I'll try focussing at infinity at f2 then stopping to f8 to see if it makes a difference. Hopefully no focus shift.
I'd love a button on Sony to increase the contrast or something when focussing through the viewfinder, or maybe those focussing aids will help, I tend not to use them at all after some mixed results (particularly when only zooming-in once) but I'll give it a go....Show more →
Here just for fun, not aesthetically pleasing, but to show the significant MFD difference with
the Simera 50:
1) CV v1 Closefocus Adapter not extended (excactly 45cm til the pen)
2) CV v1 Closefocus Adapter extended (34 cm til the pen)
Love your share! Thanks for posting my favs are 6,7 and the depth in pic 11 is insane! With the jogger out of focus looking like a toy figure 💪🏻 kudos !!
Yogifi wrote:
How are people finding the 28 at infinity focus? I'm mostly happy enough with it at closer range but it just seems a bit soft at longer distance compared to shots from my CV 28/1.5 - though I haven't put them side-by-side long-range. It was a cloudy day and I haven't used it much long distance yet so probably jumping the gun a bit as usual but just curious.
It could actually be from my focussing itself. For whatever reason, some lenses I find to focus a lot easier using the viewfinder in the a7cii. Even if the end results end up looking similar in sharpness between lenses.
The simera 28 is one where I have a very difficult time. I remember saying "infinity focus is such a wide range on my 28" but that must be because I can't see any differences after within like 30 degrees of rotation there. I'll try focussing at infinity at f2 then stopping to f8 to see if it makes a difference. Hopefully no focus shift.
I'd love a button on Sony to increase the contrast or something when focussing through the viewfinder, or maybe those focussing aids will help, I tend not to use them at all after some mixed results (particularly when only zooming-in once) but I'll give it a go....Show more →
My Simera 28 is not the sharpest tool in the shed, especially wide open, whatever distance. I do not care as I do no use it for this purpose.
Some people have incredible talent. He is a cine guy so f1.4 is very very fast. You can feel him exploring the wide apertures. I've found you can learn a lot from people you admire who clearly know what they are doing. Short videos give you often hundreds of images, all kinds of things like angles, elevation, focus distance, fades, light ingress into the scene.
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