ulrikft wrote:
105 1.8 Looks sexy! I guess I have to add it to the list :P Just ordered the 24 2.8 and 105 2.5
The 105/2.5 wont disappoint you. Sometimes I regret I sold mine, but I just didn't like the FL for DX. Will certainly buy one when I can afford FX. It would be really interesting with a shoot out between the 105/1.8 and 105/2.5, I've read very different reviews on the 1.8 (some say it's even better than the 2.5, but some say it's actually worse...).
Makten wrote:
It is rare, because of the hand polished aspherical front element. This lens is designed to minimize coma at f/1.2, which not necessarily means it is sharper. From examples I've seen, it is actually less sharp than the 50/1.2 and perhaps even the 55/1.2.
Coma is an optical aberration that most of the time is no problem at all. It is only seen at large apertures and when there is specular hilights far out in the corners, but only when they are in focus. For example, shooting a city scape at night, focusing near infinity, will reveal the comatic aberration with many fast lenses of simpler designs. This is where the Noct shines.
Here's an example of coma that I posted earlier in this thread, with the 55/1.2. The lights to the right should be near circular, but they look like "comets" (in two directions as well).
Edit: I haven't tried the Noct myself, but I believe it is totally overkill for most users. The same goes for the 28/1.4, that has also been designed to minimize coma.
Also the Noct has very impressive contrast wide open, particularly in the centre of the frame. This is rather unusual for a fast lens. Most fast lenses lose a fair bit of contrast when shot wide open, the Noct maintains the contrast at the expense of detail (contrast and detail resolution equals sharpness. The 55 and 50 1.2's lose contrast and detail resolution wide open, the Noct maintains the contrast but loses more resolution providing a lower-resolution but sharper looking image)
I really need to just use nothing but the 105/2.5 for a day. I've hardly used the lens. I shot it on my FE2 a bunch this weekend but I can't tell which shots are 135/2.8 and which were 105/2.5.
Makten wrote:
I love the drummer! A bit too warm white balance perhaps, but that's a matter of taste.
Yeah using a 1.4 with the settings on 2.0 totally throws the D700 off. Thanks for the compliment.
the_wrath_of_khan wrote:
Yeah using a 1.4 with the settings on 2.0 totally throws the D700 off. Thanks for the compliment.
What do you mean "settings on 2.0"? If you're referring to metering, it doesn't care what you have it set to. It only goes by the amount of light available... The only thing wrong will be the EXIF (for the aperture/lens data).
That's not true from anything I've read or else you wouldn't need to even input the lens data into the camera to get full matix metering. I shot the 85/1.4 with the camera still set to 24/2.0. This totally throws the camera off. The FL doesn't matter but the maximum aperture does matter. Maybe not in manual, but in aperture priority it totally confuses the camera. Another reason those shots looked off was because I was shooting on vivid with the saturation turned up a bit which I have since discovered looks awful on people and standard is a much better setting when shooting portraits.
I just checked my D2H and you're right about that in aperture priority. Although the D1 series doesn't suffer from this problem as it meters based on amount of light. Ah how I love thee, D1H
What really make Nikon's so awful is that tells you 'Hi' or 'Lo' with a flashing exposure warning instead of a shutter speed and exposure compensation scale.
the_wrath_of_khan wrote:
I came from Canon which has an amazing Aperture Priority mode. Nikon's totally is worthless. It really makes me want to not shoot Nikon.
the_wrath_of_khan wrote:
I came from Canon which has an amazing Aperture Priority mode. Nikon's totally is worthless. It really makes me want to not shoot Nikon.
Excuse me? What? The fact that you say this leads me to believe you have no idea what you're talking about.
Valorin wrote:
Excuse me? What? The fact that you say this leads me to believe you have no idea what you're talking about.
Excuse me? What? The fact that you say this leads me to believe you have no idea what you're talking about. How is a aperture priority mode that tells me low at -2EV worth anything at all. Most of my shooting is in drastically changing light sources so manual is very laborious to use. How is it practical to get a warning of 'Lo' at 1/125 @ f/1.2 at ISO 25600. I get that around 1/15 in ISO 6400 I believe. I mean that is just insane. Half of the shots I've taken that I love are at 1/15. So before you get on your high horse and tell me how I have to use my camera realize how inconvenient this is for me. Manual mode is bulky, obtruce, and just generally a pain to use most of the time. Sure there are times when I shoot manual, and on the D700 those times are much more often than they were on the 5D.
