Most of them were taken at f8 or at f1.3, and there is probably one building shot at f4 when the light was getting darker and one or two might have been at f2 (don't remember exactly).
I think this Apollon indeed a good point of entry to try an MS-Optics lens since it's got good usability and robustness characteristics among those lenses and it's overall a very nice general purpose shooter with many different characters in one lens depending on aperture + 0.3m focusing distance and very low weight.
The level of glow probably depends on shooting distance as well, I think the further distance shots are more glowy than close-up range. There are also lots of options for stopping down between wide open and f2 as well (which I haven't really explored myself yet). The travel on the aperture ring between f1.3 and f2 is quite long, and there's one intermediate dot marking in-between those (perhaps f1.7 or f1.8).
Dec 08, 2022 at 10:56 PM
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