m.sommers00 wrote:
Rey great shots! Curious if you get metering with that setup, and assuming it's all manual focusing? The lens has beautiful colours!
Hi thanks! Yes I get full matrix metering just like any manual focus lenses on the D3X and its all manual focus. I do manually add the lenses under non-cpu lens data. The colors, indeed they are more smoother and pleasing in gradation and there is a lot of room for pp with these lenses but the default raw settings are already great. It's not just the colors, the sharpness and bokeh are awesome as well. I just wish these lenses have AF on them. Cheers.
m.sommers00 wrote:
Thanks for the info! I may have to pick up that 200mm 2.8 APO, really nice stuff! Do you have more examples in your galleries I can check out?
There are few on my Flickr site. One caveat tho, the area of focus on the Mamiya 645 200mm is very thin, so thin that I rely on the AF confirm on my D3X. In the viewfinder, it may seem focused but if you nudge 1mm front or backwards, that means your focal point is out of focus I generally stop down at f/4 even tho at f/2.8 is very thin sharp, it just makes it easier to manual focus. Once it's in focus, this darn lens is crazy sharp, sharp enough that I don't need to apply sharpening on my raw files. Apparently, as the online spec says, this lens can do 120lines/mm...
ReyGay, the colours are great! And your images're unbelievably sharp!
I have old soviet manual glass Kaleinar 100mm 2.8. And it is not so easy to nail the focus correctly with this lens...
