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p.18 #1What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
as is traditional, a duck shot with my new rokkor 58/1.2:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5225/5651205825_a08a611729_o.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5225/5651205825_a08a611729_o.jpg
Apr 24, 2011 at 06:38 PM
p.18 #2What 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!
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!
Apr 24, 2011 at 08:04 PM
p.18 #3What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
1st serious pic taken from my new converted FD TS 35/2.8:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5651769145_0a6db6a105_b.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5651769145_0a6db6a105_b.jpg
Apr 24, 2011 at 09:19 PM
p.18 #4What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Sweet! Dig those TS shots man!
Here's some of the Canon FL 58mm F/1.2 a lens that's showing itself to be a lot better than I expected it to be!
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60% Crop
I'm forgetting which is which but one of these is at f/1.2, one is at f/2, and one is at F/4. Probably #2 is the F/4 one....
Here's some of the Canon FL 58mm F/1.2 a lens that's showing itself to be a lot better than I expected it to be!
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Full Image
60% Crop
I'm forgetting which is which but one of these is at f/1.2, one is at f/2, and one is at F/4. Probably #2 is the F/4 one....
Apr 24, 2011 at 10:59 PM
p.18 #5What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
the first one is definitely f/1.2. bokeh looks pretty similar to the 55/1.2.
Apr 25, 2011 at 09:29 AM
p.18 #7What 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!
-Jason
-Jason
Apr 28, 2011 at 12:06 AM
p.18 #8What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
New purchase: Mamiya M645 Teleconverter 2x N
http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_m645_tc.jpg
I bought it just so I could try some really abusive teleconverter stacking on my 200/2.8 APO
Test shot, full frame, 200mm/f2.8 @ f4 + Mamiya 2x + Canon 2x II + Canon 1.4x II = 1120mm/f22
http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_tcabuse.jpg
100% crop (Canon 5D, moderate correction for lateral CA):
http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_tcabuse_crop.jpg
Not bad for a 5.6x enlargement (or what the lens would look like on the upcoming 375 megapixel 5D Mk XII).
http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_m645_tc.jpg
I bought it just so I could try some really abusive teleconverter stacking on my 200/2.8 APO
Test shot, full frame, 200mm/f2.8 @ f4 + Mamiya 2x + Canon 2x II + Canon 1.4x II = 1120mm/f22
http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_tcabuse.jpg
100% crop (Canon 5D, moderate correction for lateral CA):
http://praetoriusphoto.images.s3.amazonaws.com/fmforums/20110428_tcabuse_crop.jpg
Not bad for a 5.6x enlargement (or what the lens would look like on the upcoming 375 megapixel 5D Mk XII).
Apr 28, 2011 at 06:09 PM
p.18 #9What 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
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
Apr 28, 2011 at 07:06 PM
p.18 #10What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
alexandre - nice stuff! I am getting into TS now, but with RZ67 TS adapter.
Just got the 180 SB for the TS adapter. (Had the 75 SB already). Also snagged an RZ 500 APO f/6. A beast!
-Ed
Just got the 180 SB for the TS adapter. (Had the 75 SB already). Also snagged an RZ 500 APO f/6. A beast!
-Ed
Apr 28, 2011 at 08:16 PM
p.18 #11What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Contax 35-70 3.4. Ridiculously sharp.
Apr 28, 2011 at 08:20 PM
p.18 #12What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Hi Ed, long time no see... Yeah, you got MF virus, I reckon
Let's put some results on the TS thread!
All the best!!
Let's put some results on the TS thread!
All the best!!
Apr 28, 2011 at 08:39 PM
p.18 #13What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
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Apr 28, 2011 at 09:21 PM
p.18 #14What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Just won a Tamron Adaptall 60-300 mm. Bif's photos made me want one.
Brgds,
Chris......
Brgds,
Chris......
Apr 29, 2011 at 06:53 PM
p.18 #15What 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.
Ed
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.
Ed
Apr 29, 2011 at 07:44 PM
p.18 #16What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
my craigslist leaves me with dissapointment and unattractive big boned chicks
Apr 30, 2011 at 12:32 AM
p.18 #17What 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!
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!
Apr 30, 2011 at 12:36 AM
p.18 #18What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Tamron 17mm f/3.5 151 B with adaptall-2 OM-Bayonet
Apr 30, 2011 at 09:15 AM
p.18 #19What 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).
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).
Apr 30, 2011 at 02:28 PM
p.18 #20What 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).
+1000
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).
+1000
Apr 30, 2011 at 02:37 PM