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 Re: Official: Samyang AF 85mm 1.4 FE ($699) | |
Ok, my friend just helped me to pose for some test shots today.
Here you can see out of the camera pictures (standard style, saturation -1 most of the time, 0 in others, wb auto most of the time, daylight others, sharpness set at 0)
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
 Sin título by Juanma Herrera, en Flickr
And now my impressions:
- First, I haven’t seen the pictures properly in the computer/raw developer yet. I just zoomed in in some while shooting, and randomly sent a few to my iPad/iPhone, and from there i selected the ones I just posted here.
- I’ve been shooting all the time in eye-af af-c that’s where mi issue were/are. Now I can see the hit rate has improved, but it’s still far from sony 85 1.8 levels. Now I have more shots that really nails the focus, and the slightly missed ones are missed even by a smaller amount than they were before, but there are still a lot not perfectly focused pictures, so the lens, a big part of the time, is not showing its full
- If you’re looking for extreme sharpness in portraits at wide apertures, maybe it’s better to go for the sony 85, because even if in my tests it’s not as resolutive as the Samyang, my tests were run at infinity in one hand, and the Samyang AF accuracy is still far from perfect, so between a slightly out of focus picture from the Samyang and a nailed one from the Sony, the sony will look sharper. But the extreme swirly bokeh of the sony, and the harsh look, etc, makes me love the Samyang even if some pictures are slightly off, I just like them better and at normal viewing sizes it’s not noticeable...
- The hit ratio highly depends on the light. In backlit situations there are more misses, but I also realised that i have more misses at very high shutter speeds (like near 1/8000) than at more moderate speeds like 1/400, maybe the IBIS is to be blamed here? The bad thing is that the transition of the lens look like a blurred picture, it’s not that smooth, so sometimes it looks like the picture is blurred, but actually it’s perfectly sharp in other area (usually in front, hand, watch, where the real focus plane is. So is it just the rendering of the lens having a transition zone like that, or might be the ibis blurring the edge of the frame (more where i place the face...)?
Please tell me your comments.
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