m-a-x, that shot with the mirror lens is cool. I've always wanted to try one of those, love the bokeh-rings.
sebboh, that shot of your daughter cracked me up. Kids make the best faces
Nothing special here, just wanted to share... we got our kids "hexbug nanos" for Christmas. These things are so much fun. It's somehow therapeutic to sit and watch them randomly traverse the course. We already bought a second set to expand their habitat... "Ok kids, since you got a gift card to the toy store I guess we can go get another set for you"
Adam - Can you share some more info with us? For example were these shot as jpegs or as raw and then converted
Also were you shooting the lens wide open? or were you stopped down a bit.The images look sharp if it is wide open.They are a bit overexposed but not too much.Were you shooting with any kind of filters on the lens? etc.
-Jim
Here two winter pics I took today with nex-6 and Sigma 30mm.
I am trying to shoot often and try different things to see if my "photographer eye" ever comes up!
Adam211 wrote:
Rokkor 58 at f/1.2 is giving me a horrible soft focus effect that renders it unusable. Is this normal? Here are a couple examples, unedited:
i've seen a similar effect though to a lesser degree with mine shooting wide open when peoples faces are in direct sunlight. it's caused by spherical aberration and shouldn't be noticeable shooting in the shade or stopped down to f/2. i noticed it a bit more with my thoriated copy of the rokkor than my unthoriated copy.
Adam211 wrote:
Rokkor 58 at f/1.2 is giving me a horrible soft focus effect that renders it unusable. Is this normal? Here are a couple examples, unedited:
You have some harsh contrast there but it still look unacceptable to me while I would say possible overexposure (/harsh contrast) could be part of it. I regularly underexpose slightly both on the NEX and 5D2 with fast manual lenses and would suggest you try it to remove the haze - especially when harsh contrast is there. I cant find a similar shot but this should at least be at similar distance. Wideopen, old version:
Adam211 wrote:
Rokkor 58 at f/1.2 is giving me a horrible soft focus effect that renders it unusable. Is this normal? Here are a couple examples, unedited:
For f1.2 at that distance I think those images are pretty good. I'd stop down to f2.8 at least if I'm that far away from the subject.
