R.Young wrote:
Do you use the egs screen or live view to focus?
I have the 5D classic, and it doesn't have live focus I do believe. I have a focus screen by Bill Maxwell in my camera, but I also have a egs screen saved somewhere. I have no issues with my other lenses, and I can see it reaching focus on this lens, but the problem is that my focus ring moves too fast and I shoot past it too easily.
I contacted Zeiss, and this is what they said:
The internal focusing mechanism of wide angle lenses like the Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZE results in less resistance of the focusing ring than with other lens types (e.g. longer focal lengths).
Of course, also with this lens, it should be possible to set the focus accurately at any distance.
Wow, people have been REALLY busy here. It was really inspiring to go through last ~10 pages I haven't seen.
I have been lately fixated to shooting f/1.4 lenses at f/2.8, really love the rendering and specially bokeh without bokeh artifacts, or at least very little of them.
R.Young: I especially like that first shot. I love Bodies of water where I can see clear to the bottom. I think the trees in the background look the best on the first one too.
Rodluvan: Those are sharp images. I never knew the 21 was great for architecture, you did a great job of balancing those photos.
prosep: nice flowers!
nickson: Nice set, that second shot really stands out. I love how you captured the snow falling in the foreground against the oof background.
fracas: That shot has a cool surreal feel to it, how long was the exposure?
Rodluvan wrote: Samuli did you add blur in those, I was particularly thinking of the last one?
No, I'm way too lazy to do that. In last shot Photomatix Pro had quite a lot of problems managing swinging branches between shots (in large version you can see it in some branches which are about one meter behind DOF), but it didn't change blur/detail relationship.
EDIT: all of these 1,4 lenses when shoot 2 or more stops down have really great contrast difference between DOF and bokeh, the look is quite different compared to shooting wide open. Also DOF doesn't change as much as I would assume between 1,4 and 2,8, I don't know why, I would assume it has something to do with rather large mechanical vignetting.
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