Andre Y wrote:
All of my near shots with the 58 are soft like this one.
Yes, I had a Lee 10-stop filter, along with a 2-stop hard grad, and maybe a B+W MRC Nano polarizer on both shots. (Maybe not the polarizer on the 58 --- I can\'t remember.)
Hm, that sounds like quality gear to me. True, the 58G focuses better on far subjects than on near ones, but as you used live view I\'d think the results should be sharper. Focusing via live view also eliminates the need to fine tune the AF, that would have been my next guess. The only thing that\'s left to think of is the curved plane of focus this lens has, but if I remember right that\'s only a problem when shooting wide open (I read about this when I was researching this lens before I bought it).
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Elijah wrote:
...I still do not understand why people use a special lens like 58G for landscapes, I just don\'t.
It\'s like using my 12mm fish for portraits.
I have seen some quite funky portraits done with a fisheye lens!
Well, for me it happened because I don\'t have as many occasions to shoot portraits as I\'d like (at least portraits I\'m allowed to share online ), and the 58G now is my only prime in the 50mm range, so I tried it for everything and was pleasantly surprised when it gave me the nice rendering visible in some of the landscapes I posted here. Of course the more I use it and from the feedback I get (for which I\'m always grateful!), I learn more about what works with the 58G and what doesn\'t. It\'s an interesting journey.
So: why? Because I can.
Markus
Jul 06, 2016 at 04:18 PM
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True, the 58G focuses better on far subjects than on near ones, but as you used live view I\'d think the results should be sharper. Focusing via live view also eliminates the need to fine tune the AF, that would have been my next guess. The only thing that\'s left to think of is the curved plane of focus this lens has, but if I remember right that\'s only a problem when shooting wide open (I read about this when I was researching this lens before I bought it).
), and the 58G now is my only prime in the 50mm range, so I tried it for everything and was pleasantly surprised when it gave me the nice rendering visible in some of the landscapes I posted here. Of course the more I use it and from the feedback I get (for which I\'m always grateful!), I learn more about what works with the 58G and what doesn\'t. It\'s an interesting journey.