Nice to see some flowers again- been a rough and long Winter.
From this morning, with the RF modified Minolta MC 50/1.4 on the Leica M8. This lens is center-sharp, which works out well for for the M8. 16-Bit DNG files, using M8RAW2DNG.
Hi all, I just bought 3 Rokkor lenses and adapter for my A7. 50/1.4, 135/2.8 and 45/2 "pancake" . Could you recommend any ultrawide lens and telephoto lens? And maybe fisheye?
btw great photos I found in this thread,I hope I'll add some soon too. Still waiting for adapter.
Apr 23, 2014 at 02:50 AM
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nAscA wrote:
Hi all, I just bought 3 Rokkor lenses and adapter for my A7. 50/1.4, 135/2.8 and 45/2 "pancake" . Could you recommend any ultrawide lens and telephoto lens? And maybe fisheye?
btw great photos I found in this thread,I hope I'll add some soon too. Still waiting for adapter.
For telephoto I have the 400 f/5.6 APO and it is a very good lens. It is reasonably sharp (but you can find other lenses that are sharper) and has fantastic colour with no colour fringing that I have ever seen. For the focal length it isn't that big or that heavy. If 400mm is too long you might also look at the 200 f/2.8, which is reputed to be an excellent lens. Neither of these lenses are as cheap as the ones you bought, but compared to their AF counterparts they are still a good bargain.
For ultrawide there is a 17 f/4 and a 21 f/2.8 as well as a 16 f/2.8 fisheye. I haven't used any of these lenses and don't know how they stack up against others but they are out there. I did own the 24 f/2.8 at one point and it is very sharp in the centre and excellent for close up work, but the corners don't sharpen up until f/11. It has a bit of CA, but it isn't too bad. I thought it was a very nice lens.
Just bought a 58 f/1.4 to use with my E-PM2. Haven't quite gotten the hang of focusing down yet, especially at large apertures but my goodness do I love how this lens renders! Definitely a little low on contrast, but already created an LR5 preset to take care of that. Here's some samples from walking around near work
Just got the 58mm 1.2 today, here is one of my few successful shots at 1.2!
Not the easiest focusing on the 5DmkIII (except from LV), the 5Dc seems to be much better, then again wearing glasses doesn't help me either... some adjustments in C1.
