Not really a great photograph (tree overlap), but I find myself using this image as a desktop background quite a lot because of the pleasing colors and the amount of detail that the lens has extracted from the scene.
Fuji S5 Pro, focal length is probably 70mm, smallish aperture, Hoya HD polarizer.
I got this lens a while back, absolutely ridiculous how sharp it is -- I get diffraction limited on my 16MP 1DsII at F4 for most focal lenghts. Only lens I know (ignoring the Leica 2.8 version of this lens) of that beats the 70-200/2.8 IS and Zeiss macro lenses. Here's my contribution to this thread.
Performs well wide open at 35, but should've gone to F4 for that biting sharpness.
Cropped about 70% at ISO 3200. Have to say it was interesting shooting a performance at F3.4.
An ISO3200 accidentally shot as Jpeg. Still pretty sharp.
Good to see you enjoying it, Lynn. How good is the 'defined but OOF' bokeh, and I love the low macro-contrast combined with super micro-contrast and object shaping. A nice set, very creative, sp12, thank you.
Simple comp of high altitude flowers in a brook. Not sure if this image was using 4 stop ND, light was changing due to clouds and I took some w/ filter and some w/o. I liked the images with more silky water, but the wind was blowing the flowers around too much and they were a little too 'silky'.
philip_pj wrote:
Good to see you enjoying it, Lynn. How good is the 'defined but OOF' bokeh, and I love the low macro-contrast combined with super micro-contrast and object shaping. A nice set, very creative, sp12, thank you.
Thanks, I personally love the colors on this lens the more than basically any other Zeiss I've tried.. It's a pleasure to work with
This is a cross post from the l/s forum. This is a very late evening shot at the arch, some deer walked out on the ridge line and looked down. I shot this at 70mm and then shot a second frame for a stitch pano.
Moths? Butterflies? up high in the San Juan mountains. Just figured out how the macro function works on this lens. I like the focal length for macro-ish work on T3i.
I like the focal length for macro-ish work on T3i.