zuikolens wrote:
I thought it would be interesting to test out this lens with a very light mist filter to soften highlight transitions and somewhat bloom bright light sources and illuminated edges. I haven’t had much chance to test this outdoors (in the middle of a snowstorm right now) but I did a quick and dirty test with a floor lamp to show the difference. Sometimes the harsh rendering of bright lights and edges can have a clinical “digital” look that I’m not terribly fond of, so I’m testing this out to see if it gets me results closer to what I prefer. So far so good! Image quality appears to be just fine on a lower resolution sensor, and image contrast is mostly maintained.
Thanks for the inspiration, tried it out tonight with the Tiffen Black Pro Mist 1/4 filter. It's exactly the look I've been trying to achieve with the bloom/halation on the light sources.
