cj velez wrote:
Thank you uhoh7. Which version of the Nikkor 55 mm f/3.5 are you using?
Brgds,
Chris......
Mine is the first coated (or multi coated) diamond grip, just before the AI model, which is great at infinity, but not as good macro as the early ones.
I don't have an adapter yet, but very eager to see how my alt lenses work on the 5N.
In the meantime here's a recent capture from the kit lens. I'm really loving the Sweep Pano function.
Sirfishalot wrote:
I don't have an adapter yet, but very eager to see how my alt lenses work on the 5N.
In the meantime here's a recent capture from the kit lens. I'm really loving the Sweep Pano function....
Beautiful.
Sirfishalot wrote:
I don't have an adapter yet, but very eager to see how my alt lenses work on the 5N.
In the meantime here's a recent capture from the kit lens. I'm really loving the Sweep Pano function.
JayT
very nice shot there---nothing wrong with that lens.
Six from yesterday with Contax G 28/2.8. I finally get some feel for MF with the NEX, at least I get less random sharpness now. It's a very sharp lens, including the corners. All wide open, except the last one (in B/W).
sebboh wrote:
just trying to get a feel for the bokeh on the jupiter-3.
Wow, that's pretty smooth. I see no wildness like nikkor 5cm/1.4 (which sometimes i really like).
That's what I'm hoping for with the sonnar 5cm/1.5 (to be like your j-3, which of course is nearly identical, except for coatings), along with infinity performance. How is the j-3 with distant objects?
I don't do it justice, but this is such a great high speed lens--which I would not even know about except for sebboh
It's the smallest, lightest, one of the sharpest @1.2, has close focus, and can shoot a landscape sharp edge to edge at f/8. My pen 25/2.8 is way quirkier, with edge issues at least on the old sensor.
For bokeh it has it's own character, with considerable variation as you can even see in these three. Sometimes it will go "brushstroke" as in the last shot, but that's not a given as you cann see looking out the window in shot 2. Brush strokes can be nice sometimes anyway
Jacob D wrote:
I like it at f2 much better. It handled that rose scene pretty well.
it's decently smooth except in the corners at f/2 and pretty good all round at f/2.8. if i just want smooth bokeh though i'll just shoot my rokkor 58/1.2 at f/2.5 or my rokinon 85/1.4 at any aperture.
i'm more looking for interesting character from this lens (and tiny size on the NEX). what i'm finding i do like from the j-3 is the textures in plain oof backgrounds at f/1.5 (like the pavement) and the extremely smooth transition from in focus to oof (no abrupt line of focus visible in the soccer ball or planter images), which i like for portraits (don't want that abrupt transition happening on somebodies face). http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6051/6255585051_70dc050168_o.jpg
uhoh7 wrote:
Wow, that's pretty smooth. I see no wildness like nikkor 5cm/1.4 (which sometimes i really like).
That's what I'm hoping for with the sonnar 5cm/1.5 (to be like your j-3, which of course is nearly identical, except for coatings), along with infinity performance. How is the j-3 with distant objects?
Here the nikkor 5cm/1.4 with hawk helicoid pretending it's a mellow sonnar
i don't think there are any mellow 50mm sonnars. those jupiter f/1.5 shots are mellowish because i chose my background carefully or stopped down. here is the planter shot at f/1.5 instead of f/2: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6256116080_b99c8cb980_o.jpg
wide open it's best to just avoid specular highlights all together.
my jupiter-3 is worthless as a traditional landscape lens (to me). the corners never get critically sharp, there is evident CA, and contrast is a bit too low. luckily i have lots of 50s that are spectacular in those regards. here's a test shot of a distant subject, probably at f/8: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6212914959_89bd2fbc90_o.jpg
