For those interested, here's a picture of my A7RII sporting the 85/4 ZM using the Leitax "permanent" adapter, which I like very much (I bought one for my 15/4.5 VM).
This rig took several nice images while I was in Europe last month:
When photographing we often find it easier to shoot something beautiful in 'exotic' places. The grass is always greener somewhere else.
In order to push myself to see the beauty around us, I decided to document life in my village, a settlement of around 200 houses in the hills near Zagreb.
This image is one of the first ones of my new project. Meet Katica.
D700 ~ 50/1.4 Planar ~ no editing/cropping except for b&w conversion
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 6:09 PM.
Looking at a field of Muscari "Bluebells"
Tripod mounted A7rM V3 and Zeiss 35mm f1.4 Distagon ZM lens
ISO 100, f11, 1/8 second
Exposure corrected by -0.12 Stops; processed with CornerFix and LR6
well I am a bit late but thank you thank you thank you my dear Luka!
Not sure this thing represents the very best in terms of "café français" but it is good to see our national flag in NY streets and your shot is top notch as usual.
Lieutenant Z wrote:
well I am a bit late but thank you thank you thank you my dear Luka!
Not sure this thing represents the very best in terms of "café français" but it is good to see our national flag in NY streets and your shot is top notch as usual.
Philippe,
Thank you. And, I must admit that I have not had anything from this cafe. At the same time, it seems reasonably crowded, so it must be decent. I can't imagine this cafe serves any of those amazing baguette though. They never taste as good here compare to ones I had tasted in France.
jbouchard wrote:
I agree with you, but it's interesting that in the case of the Milvus 50/2 MP, which should also be much the same as the classic equivalent, DXO testing results show the new one as much sharper than the old one. Not just a little, a lot.
Interesting... so Zeiss did something on these milvus line, they retained the formula & tweaked some stuff. -- not just classic lens on new chassis.
But they published the same MTF results [ and we all know Zeiss MTF's are actual measurements not theoretical ]..so how come DXO says it's sharper?
if they did something on Milvus 2/50 MP I want to see the bokeh maybe it's smoother or overall rendering is not clicnical... if that's the case i will buy this.
bushwacker wrote:
Interesting... so Zeiss did something on these milvus line, they retained the formula & tweaked some stuff. -- not just classic lens on new chassis.
But they published the same MTF results [ and we all know Zeiss MTF's are actual measurements not theoretical ]..so how come DXO says it's sharper?
if they did something on Milvus 2/50 MP I want to see the bokeh maybe it's smoother or overall rendering is not clicnical... if that's the case i will buy this.
According to Zeiss, lens design did not change, but coating changed. I am suspicious that would affect the score that much. I am not sure how DXO measure scores, like how many times these testing are repeated and taken average, or just one time. Lens Rentals usually is an average from multipe tests, I think, which reduces effect of misalignment, or any variables, such as human error.
DXO score, if I remember correctly, is also dependent on testing body, so if previous testing was done on old 12 mp body, and new one on 36+ mp body. I assume the score would be affected ? I could be wrong, but that is what I vaguely I remember.
According to Zeiss, lens design did not change, but coating changed. I am suspicious that would affect the score that much. I am not sure how DXO measure scores, like how many times these testing are repeated and taken average, or just one time. Lens Rentals usually is an average from multipe tests, I think, which reduces effect of misalignment, or any variables, such as human error.
DXO score, if I remember correctly, is also dependent on testing body, so if previous testing was done on old 12 mp body, and new one on 36+ mp body. I assume the score would be affected ? I could be wrong, but that is what I vaguely I remember.
The camera body will definitely affect the scores, but in this case they tested both the classic lens and the Milvus on the Nikon D800E and the Milvus looks a lot better. The differences is likely copy variation. DXO tests just one lens and if they go a dud for the classic lens and a very good copy of the Milvus, then you can get very different results. Just one of the problem with DXO lens tests, which suck in a lot of ways, but I do think their sensor tests are useful.
DXO lens tests.... according to their tests the Sigma 20mm f/1.8 is sharper than the Zeiss 21mm f/2.8... need to say more? So if they tested the Milvus 50/2 much sharper than the old 50/2, they probably messed up the old test.
Thank you Luka!
No people in the shot is just luck on my side and 5-min of patience
Delphi is amazing and a must visit if you travel in Greece. No wonder oracles chose it to reveal prophecies.
