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adamdewilde wrote:
Do you notice that after using your LCDVF (z-finder for me), that your one pupil is dilated and your other is ok, which then causes weird eye problems. Honestly I think that staring that close to a monitor thats being magnified with one eye in and one eye out, that something's gonna go wrong in the next year or so with my/your vision. Just thinking about it as I write, I'm starting to feel a little weird!
I'm not sure what you mean - My eyes used to get tired watching viewfinder but watching liveview through LCDVF does not get the tired. If I use only LCDVF on shoot I adjust the brightness to 4 of 7 setting (when I use live view without LCDVF I have it at full power). Only weird thing was when I tried it without the eye cup cushion (made of soft cloth) in it (just the rubber against eye cup) and it worked like suction cup, even made "blob" sound when removed from eye, that did feel really weird and I really don't want to experience it again... With LCDVF I can keep easily my other eye open, which makes it easier for eyes as well.
adamdewilde wrote:
philber - I shoot portraits and honestly the 85 really was built for portraits, so if it's problematic at close and medium distances thats no good!
Samuli - My 50L wasn't a bad copy, or at least I didn't really notice the shift. Most of the time though, I used it outdoors wide open so I suspect thats why I didn't notice it. In studio I rarely use primes as with the fast paced shooting it comes down to flexibility so either 24-70L or 70-200L. I mean one could say use the 85 ZE wide open, but again, a bad way of looking at things, and until Zeiss corrects this issue in future releases, I think I'd stick with my idea of 28-50-100..
Now, talk about the 50's my friends!
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85mm is typically considered as portrait focal length. However for some weird reasons Zeiss designed the 1.4/85 so that it's optimized to infinity and doesn't have floating element. I use it only for "environmental portraits" (full body visible or even less magnification) at f/1.4. See example below.
50L doesn't need to be bad copy to have focus shift, it's included in every copy of 50L. Of course if you get really bad copy it may have more uncorrected spherical aberrations and therefore more focus shift, but all of them do. Most of the fast lenses have some focus shift.
Regarding 50's I got first 50ZE shot today, which has the look what I was trying to get, or even close to it. I really don't know what to do at 50mm since 1.4/50ZE has focus shift and at f/1.4 it's really bad (even focusing is difficult, similarly C/Y1.7 I prefer to focus at f/2.5 where it's razor sharp). I was pretty happy with 1.7/50C/Y. I'm thinking either trying 2/50ZE or just using 1.7/50C/Y - have to shoot more with f/1.4 to get my mind clear about this. This far I have not seen f/1.4 Planar doing anything better what good copy of f/1.7 does. I have really liked the look of converted Canon FD f/1.2 lenses, but I don't have capabilities to do the conversion myself.
Example of "environmental portrait" 85ZE, f/1.4, 1/8000s, ISO 50, Yongnuo radio remote trigger:
Example of look what I'm trying to get from 50mm - 50ZE, f/2, 1/2500s, ISO 100:
adamdewilde wrote:
My thoughts were 21-35-50-100 or 28-50-100 (which is easier on the wallet, and less excessive). Although I'm sure I could get by with 35-100, then just use my canon non-L primes to fill in the gaps, plus my L zooms for times when I really need better IQ (better then non-L primes).. Though if I found myself using the ZEs exclusively, then I'd be stuck wanting to beef out the 35-100 set, and would be forced to go 21-35-50-100 which would break the bank!
I guess what I'm getting at, is I wanna see some good 28s and 50 1.4s...
I got a little too many ZE lenses due to having good luck finding good deals. My problem is what is the set of lenses I'm really going to use for shooting. For example while I travel I definitely will not carry ZE21, 28, 35, 50, 85, 100 with me, it's too heavy. I have to get my mind clear about this before this years photography season really starts. If I would have to guess now then I would say I will shoot next summer with: ZE21, C/Y25, ZE35, 50mm (not sure yet which ZE1.4, ZE2 or C/Y1.7), ZE100 and C/Y80-200. This set with 5DmkII & Gitzo 1550T (+Photoclam smallest ballhead) stored in Lowepro Flipside 400AW will fit (it's pretty tight) flying hand luggage regulations and is easy to carry in cities etc. When I'm in Finland I can take my 80 liter hiking backpack and put 20kg lenses, flashes and whatever I need and it's easy to carry, so this is only issue when flying somewhere or doing multiple day hikes and tent and other stuff is needed to be carried.
adamdewilde wrote:
Or for someone to tell me 35-100 is a great all purpose set 
35 & 100 is great all purpose set  Before moving to ZE I did shoot two years with ZF35 and ZF100 as my main lenses, over half of the photos were taken with these two lenses. With 1.3x crop this combo was a little problematic but with full frame it's very versatile.
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