p.18 #2 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Thanks Mike!
mcbroomf wrote:
I really like the 1st shot bif. I have the 35-80/2.8 SP and it's amazingly sharp, especially at the long end. The Tamron org site shows this one as being sharper at the wide end which I assume you were using in that shot. How do you find it at 80mm?
Yeah, those are at 28mm I think. I haven't had it long enough to really put it through it's paces yet but I think I will shortly. So far the wide end is nice and sharp and that's all I really know so far. I'll post some tests with it a little later maybe.
sebboh,
That's really terrible! I mean the worst EVER! You really need to get rid of that lens! As it happens I just happen to have a space on my shelf reserved for terrible lenses that no one wants and would be glad to house it for you at no cost to you of course!
p.18 #7 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Just snagged a ZF 35/2 to go along with my C/Y 35/1.4. I think they are different enough to warrant having both! Got the lens from KEH for $695 shipped. Has all the bits along with it! A good price I think, and with all of the just jaw-dropping images I have seen the ZF/ZE 35/2 produce, I can't wait to give it a try. The C/Y excels at what I bought it for, environmental portraits, and I will be using the 35/2 for PJ/event and landscape work. 35mm on FF is just the focal length for me. The original ZF lenses can be had for what I consider to be a great value at the moment if you wait for a good deal. I will post some images when she arrives on Friday!
p.18 #9 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Same crazy TC stack, different lens: Mamiya 80/4 Macro. Can't focus farther than ~7ft due to interference with protruding TC element, but it is a macro lens.
Effective 450mm/f22 lens (wide open), 100% crop from 5D (image of banana tree leaf): http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_leaf_crop.jpg
p.18 #15 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
I just struck Gold this week with a pile of Oly OM stuff.
Bodies,flash,converters and lenses including both a 24mm 3.5 & 35mm 2.8 Shift Lens in great condition.
I was looking at some Microphones from Craigs List and the guy asks if I have any interest in Camera gear?
That was on Monday,on Wed. I had the EOS adapter and was shooting with these freaky lenses on a 40D.
He called me Wed. to say he found the cases and Motor Drive for the items I bought and I went and picked them up too.
Oh and it was all inside a fitted Prinze case and Very inexpensive.......VERY.
p.18 #17 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
cj velez wrote:
Just won a Tamron Adaptall 60-300 mm. Bif's photos made me want one.
Brgds,
Chris......
Hi Chris,
Yup, one of my favorite lenses! It's heavy but I don't mind that myself. It's a very versatile lens! Post some shots in the Adaptal thread after you get it!
p.18 #19 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Voigtlander Ultron 40/2 SLII (EOS), the first lens I've bought new (from Cameraquest) in a long time. I decided not to wait until Cosina discontinues the lens and used prices double
I just got it out of the box for a few test shots, and I'm already in love. http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110430_cv40.jpg
Mini-review from quick first impressions:
Built quality is impeccable, at least as nice as any other lens I've owned. Everything feels very smooth and solid; the lens is compact but feels dense.
Image quality: this lens is as if you took one of the ubiquitous 50mm/f1.8-2 double-gauss design lenses, and then "turned down" the usual assortment of aberrations/problems by ~75%. The "usual" issues with a fastish lens are all still there, but substantially reduced, allowing the underlying "perfect" image to shine through more clearly:
- There is slight glow around bright spots from wide open, and coma+vignetting creates the "triangular" bokeh towards the frame edges.
- Vignetting is quite visible at f2, decreasing to barely noticeable by f4, and practically gone by f5.6
- Lateral CA is very well controlled (present, but you have to look closely).
- Flare resistance is superb. Shooting directly into the sun, you can sometimes get a small, sharp red ring around the sun, but otherwise it is very hard to make the lens misbehave.
- At long focus distances, there is a moderate tendency towards purple fringing/glow around highlights and high-contrast edges that decreases but does not go away entirely as the lens is significantly stopped down (to, e.g., f5.6).
- My favorite thing so far about the lens image quality is that the color aberrations (purple fringing, LoCA) are nearly gone at mid- to close-focusing distances; there is still some diffuse halo around highlights wide open at mid-distances, but it is not purple tinted, and bokeh discs are nearly uniformly colored. Excellent close-focus color behavior seems to be something that Cosina cares about a lot in their designs (e.g. all the close-focusing APO lenses they have released), which I really appreciate (I think this often matters a lot more for images than squeezing out the last drops of focal plane test-chart sharpness).
p.18 #20 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
mpmendenhall wrote:
Excellent close-focus color behavior seems to be something that Cosina cares about a lot in their designs (e.g. all the close-focusing APO lenses they have released), which I really appreciate (I think this often matters a lot more for images than squeezing out the last drops of focal plane test-chart sharpness).
I'll post some tests with it a little later maybe.
