Fred Miranda wrote: virtualrain wrote: Fred Miranda wrote: JohnDizzo15 wrote:
@xwing15@@@@ - awesome shots! Looks great at those apertures. Glad to hear the rig is behaving better with the update to the TAP. I didn’t realize an update was even out until about 11pm last night. Lol. Installed but waiting to get some actual shooting done today at the amusement park and hotel.
@realVivek@@@@ - nice! Thanks for the link. Some good info in there I was curious about. Hopefully the user base and interest grows moving forward. I really do love this little lens.
On the article the author mentions: "At 1:5.6 the performance becomes impeccable over the full area of the sensor and the lens can be used as a universal tool."
I don't see that on the samples posted on this thread at f/5.6. There is very noticeable softening towards the edges with samples images at f/5.6 or f/8. It could be copy variation but I don't think it's 'impeccable performance' on the full area of the sensor. It would be nice if someone could post 1:1 crops showing the mid-field and edges of the frame at f/5.6 and f/8. (Preferably at infinity)
This lens has an aperture adjustment?!
Of the few images I've shot at narrow apertures, I've not been impressed with the edges at all but I haven't been very scientific about it. If it wasn't dull and rainy here, I'd go out and shoot some test shots. But, I don't think this lens is a universal tool... It's a character lens.
I have not tried it yet but from the samples posted here, from wide open to about f/2, I'm impressed by the lovely rendering and clean bokeh balls. The uncorrected spherical aberration gives that unique look at wide apertures and images can be sharp around the center area at mid-distance. Contrast can always be tweaked in post.
It does not seem to be a lens that will sharpen up even by f/8 towards the edges but I don't think it was intended for that. It reminds me of the ZM 50/1.5c but with lower contrast wide open.
I almost purchased the ZM 50/1.5 based on your and others reviews of it, but I felt that it just didn't offer enough added speed and background blur beyond what I could get with the FE55 and it seemed like a lot of money to invest in a lens I might not use very often. However, this 7A definitely delivers background blur in spades... reminds me of what I could do with the 85L when I was on Canon... and for the price, was a no-brainer.
Jan 17, 2018 at 07:28 PM
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