Frogfish wrote:
The 21mm is a simply magical piece of glass with Pixie Dust liberally sprinkled all over it
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I know it is, based upon all of the response and the great photos on line. Just wish I was more comfortable with wide angle — or travelled a lot more.
I knew what I was getting with the 1.4/85 going in. but some of the shots I have seen were magic, and at a focal length that I am happy with. Don't do sports or action shots. For a MF bag, I am trying the 2/35 and the 1.4/85 for a while. See how that works.
Meanwhile I am going out with just the Nikon 24mm 1.3G to negate my wide angle apprehension...
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
tivv - I try to avoid commenting portraits OR processed photos - however I liked what you had done on post processing to enhance the skin texture on this one, great work!
Ronny - enjoyed the two dragonflies picture (on large size in Flickr, on forum the wing patterns weren't at their best)
thanks
Talking about trees - few "cheat" photos (took 3-6 frame panoramas to "enlarge sensor"):
JaKo, great looking matte black car. I have found them always hard to capture well - thou I have had to shoot them usually indoors, which makes it harder.
Reminder why I like to shoot 1-2 stops down, the bokeh in corners is just ugly. The C/Y version definitely has nicer wide open bokeh - Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 1.4/35 @ f/1.4:
Not wide open, but bokeh can be really ugly @ f/2.2 as well:
Last two wide open as well but didn't put anything distracting to corners:
I had a focusingscreen.com split screen, while it helped a little but it was slightly off. I used the focus confirm dot most of the time. I went back to the OEM focusing screen.
Samuli - I have to say, I love all those not-stopped-down shots. Though the last two are my favorites. I like short-DOF landscapes when used that way - there's still plenty of detail in the overall image, and you get a great sense of depth.
