Ah, I see, thank you Aham (btw, is that your first name?). I always forget that color shift problem because I only have the Nex since a couple of weeks and have not found a wide angle solution until now. I have been experimenting lately with the Rokkor 21mm and the Yashica 28mm + Yashica wide angle add on lens and those do not show any color shift off course, because being no RF lenses.
I recently bought a lens that I had huge problems with. I try to buy lenses that do mount wether to my Leica and Nex or Canon 5d2 and Nex and I needed a nice 35 for my Leica M2. Affordable and high praise and fast left pretty much only the Nokton 35mm f/1.2 ASPH and I finally found one used in another forum.
When the lense arrived I did not manage to take any sharp image, a total desaster. So I bit the bullet and brought it to my local Leica repair shop. They had to completely dismantle it and found that the complete front group of lenses was loose and decentered. Luckily they where able to adjust it.
I still don't know what to think of that lens. Here are two street shot, as you know, I don't normally do much street photography. What do you think?
If you had just asked my opinion of this lens, whithout saying what you thought, I would have answered: excellent!, Heinz. What do you see that bothers you? Hexagons?
The reason why I was asking is the fact that I am fighting with this lens for 100 or so shots now. It can produce terrible images as soon as the sun comes close to 90°, totally low contrast, lots of flare and CA, purple fringing, softness, you name it. On the other hand it can produce night shots to die for and images like the ones above, that are - I agree - technically very nice, extremely sharp and produce quite a bit 3D.
Thanks a lot for the nice comments and your opinions, I appreciate it.
Philippe, that looks extremely nice, that lens is a gem and certainly a keeper if the focal length suits you.
Thanks Philber! It's so rare I am on that side of the lens - it just looks weird. Wearing my standard tee shirt and shorts with a ponytail ... I thought the mascara would "girlie" me up a bit. My son looked at me and said "what's that stuff on your eyes?". HA! I am what is called "comfortable being natural". No bling or makeup needed. The darkroom and the garden don't seem to mind what I look like!
Nice ones, Philippe. I like the one with the bugs the best.
Katie, excellent portrait, I like the transition between the sharpness of the eyes and softness of your face a lot. As always, a beautiful model helps a lot when shooting portraits
Gosh thanks Philber! Heinz - you are too kind. You guys sure know how to make a girl happy!
Uhoh - I am sorry about your mobility problem. I look forward to you walking again and sharing your "best" stuff! Glad you were pleased with these. As for the shot; I say "self portrait" as I did everything BUT press the shutter. I set the aperture (used the Rokkor manual focus) and if it wasn't wide open, it was pretty close - then I told my husband EXACTLY where to stand and where I wanted my eyes in the frame. Thanks to peaking mode - all I had to tell him was to push it when my "eyes turned red"... it worked like a charm!
I must be doing something wrong with this peaking feature. There is no way it will work for me on something as small as eyes. Which setting are you using? I use "medium".
KatieInTexas wrote:
Gosh thanks Philber! Heinz - you are too kind. You guys sure know how to make a girl happy!
Uhoh - I am sorry about your mobility problem. I look forward to you walking again and sharing your "best" stuff! Glad you were pleased with these. As for the shot; I say "self portrait" as I did everything BUT press the shutter. I set the aperture (used the Rokkor manual focus) and if it wasn't wide open, it was pretty close - then I told my husband EXACTLY where to stand and where I wanted my eyes in the frame. Thanks to peaking mode - all I had to tell him was to push it when my "eyes turned red"... it worked like a charm!...Show more →
haha, good use of handy objects, like husband, as tripod.
Have you tried to set your camera to black and white, Philippe? That will give a black and white image on the screen and you'll see the peaking red very easily. Leaving settings on raw off course, so b/w will only affect the LCD image.
I find the peaking feature quite easy to see. If I turn the focusing ring back and forth say at f/2 I can see a red horizontal band moving for- and backwards, but I use a LCD shade, which always gives me a contrasty screen. If it is extremely bright and the sun is behind me I set the screen brightness to sunny instead of auto, which also helps a lot to see the peaking.
philber wrote:
I must be doing something wrong with this peaking feature. There is no way it will work for me on something as small as eyes. Which setting are you using? I use "medium".
i find that you need a narrow dof and highlights reflected in the eyes in order to get peaking just on the eyes.
Since this was pretty much just a head shot - the eyes were a big part of the image in the frame. I used all natural window light, so there was lots of light in my eyes for it to grab onto. I tested it on him first in the exact spot that I was in and it worked perfectly. I think Sebboh is right - wide open with lots of light in the eyes works well.
