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miran
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:48 am Post subject: |
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miran wrote:
The lens just arrived from Austria this morning. Thanks, Patrick! It does look ugly, I can't wait to see what kind of photos it can take. Will post soon. |
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miran
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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miran wrote:
I'm done!
To be honest I didn't find this lens to be as bad as some have said. Well, I wouldn't want to actually put it in my bag, but it can make acceptable images as long as you don't need sharpness outside the center, apertures larger than f/5.6 or straight lines near the edges. I didn't see any CA or flare issues but that's probably because I didn't get to shoot it in conditions that will give problems in this regard.
Here are my results, all taken with a NEX-5, converted from raw and postprocessed in whatever way was necessary to make them look presentable (including a bit o straightening and mild cropping on one or two):
1. Close up (which can double as a street shot):
2. Landscape (with a sort of building included):
3. Building(s):
4. Street (I don't do street photography so I'm showing a photo of a street instead):
5. Portrait (of a stuffed animal toy sitting on a balcony rail covered in pigeon crap):
Summary. What I don't like about this lens: looks ugly and is fiddly to operate, unusable for serious purposes wide open (or even at f/4 if you're not very forgiving), gets very soft very quickly when going away from the image centre (even on an APS-C sensor), bad distortion, long MFD. What I like: nothing.
I eagerly await further instructions. |
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peterqd
Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 7448 Location: near High Wycombe, UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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peterqd wrote:
Wow Miran, how did you do that??? So superior to mine. This lens seems to have been improved while on its travels! _________________ Peter - Moderator |
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miran
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:04 am Post subject: |
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miran wrote:
Hehe, nothing special. There's not even any special postprocessing, just normal raw conversion (my personal default settings) plus some obvious oversharpening. I should dial that back a bit actually. These were all taken at f/5.6 and f/8 (didn't keep notes so though) except the last one which is at f/4. I wouldn't dare try to use this lens at f/2.8 unless I was going for a very old style lo-fi look. Also I think the weather helped me. In strong sunlight who knows what would happen. But anyway the drop in sharpness towards the edges is really quite apparent even at this small size in 2, 3 and 4. I wouldn't recommend this lens to anyone.
But the biggest problem I had with it was the focusing. With my adapter it focused way past infinity and judging focus even on my NEX with focus peaking was difficult. Wide open it's not sharp and contrasty enough for focus peaking to work and stopped down most of the time too much of the frame is in focus to be able to nail it without having to go into x7 close-up mode.
Anyway, it was a nice experience, but I'll gladly send it to the next person in line. Until then I might actually take it out again if I find the time. |
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miran
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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miran wrote:
Took it out to see some sun before I send it off to Finland. To be honest I think it's not that bad apart from the massive flare. I hope it's ok to post here. Frames 1, 2 and 5 are all wide open, I think, 3 and 4 are stopped down to f/5.6 or f/8, can't remember:
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ManualFocus-G
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 6624 Location: United Kingdom
Expire: 2014-11-24
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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ManualFocus-G wrote:
The lens is definitely getting better with age I love the third shot from the last set, but everyone is doing really well with such a limited lens _________________ Graham - Moderator
Shooter of choice: Fujifilm X-T20 with M42, PB and C/Y lenses
See my Flickr photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualfocus-g |
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tanheis
Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 507 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:58 am Post subject: |
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tanheis wrote:
Received the lens yesterday evening.
Will try the lens and post photos here.
I also have another body (crop) for a while before it's going to my friend in Kenya so I will compare it how it works on both. _________________ EOS 5D mk II
Lenses: Zeiss Distagon T* 15/2.8, Nikkor 24mm 2.8, Pentacon 30 3.5, SMC Takumar 50 1.4, Nikon 50mm 1.4 AI-S & non-AI ones,Olympus OM Zuiko 28/2,Pentacon 50 1.8,Industar-50 50mm 3.5(silver & black) Tamron SP 90mm 2.5, Tokina 28-85 4, Tamron SP 35-80 2.8-3.8, Zeiss 15mm 2.8 ZE Distagon, Zeiss Tessar 45/2.8, Zeiss Planar 85/1.4,Nikon 105mm 1.8,Nikon 200/2 ED-IF AI-S,Seimar 135 2.8, Tamron SP 300mm 5.6, Tamron SP 60-300 3.8-5.4, Tamron SP 500mm 8.0 Mirror, Zenit Photosniper + Tair-3, Canon FD 800 5.6L - EOS converted
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Canon EOS M
Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
Olympus PEN-F 42mm f/1.2 |
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tanheis
Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 507 Location: Finland
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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tanheis wrote:
Here are first two shots I took today later evening after while the sun was setting.
These are with full frame and I noticed the corners are soft but center and upper / lower area is not so bad.
Lacks contrast and needs to be adjusted for better images
Lake landscape
Small lake/pond
Same as previous but shot with crop body 500D
_________________ EOS 5D mk II
Lenses: Zeiss Distagon T* 15/2.8, Nikkor 24mm 2.8, Pentacon 30 3.5, SMC Takumar 50 1.4, Nikon 50mm 1.4 AI-S & non-AI ones,Olympus OM Zuiko 28/2,Pentacon 50 1.8,Industar-50 50mm 3.5(silver & black) Tamron SP 90mm 2.5, Tokina 28-85 4, Tamron SP 35-80 2.8-3.8, Zeiss 15mm 2.8 ZE Distagon, Zeiss Tessar 45/2.8, Zeiss Planar 85/1.4,Nikon 105mm 1.8,Nikon 200/2 ED-IF AI-S,Seimar 135 2.8, Tamron SP 300mm 5.6, Tamron SP 60-300 3.8-5.4, Tamron SP 500mm 8.0 Mirror, Zenit Photosniper + Tair-3, Canon FD 800 5.6L - EOS converted
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Canon EOS M
Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
Olympus PEN-F 42mm f/1.2 |
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tanheis
Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 507 Location: Finland
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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tanheis wrote:
Building #1 (The Tampere Cathedral)
Building #2 (The Tampere Cathedral)
Close up
Street shot
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57849 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Hey so many excellent shoots from a 'crappy lens' clearly shows, subject,light , photographer much more important than lens , camera. Race to have better camera , better lens quiet funny if we see this results. _________________ -------------------------------
Items on sale on Ebay
Sony NEX-7 Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4, Minolta MD 35mm f1.8, Konica 135mm f2.5, Minolta MD 50mm f1.2, Minolta MD 250mm f5.6, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8
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hoanpham
Joined: 31 Jan 2011 Posts: 2575
Expire: 2015-01-18
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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hoanpham wrote:
Attila wrote: |
Hey so many excellent shoots from a 'crappy lens' clearly shows, subject,light , photographer much more important than lens , camera. Race to have better camera , better lens quiet funny if we see this results. |
+10. very true.
I am still resisting new lenses
Very nice shots from this lens. _________________ La migliore cura di LBA � imparare una nuova lingua. Le meilleur rem�de de LBA est d'apprendre une nouvelle langue. La mejor cura del LBA es aprender una nueva lengua. |
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tanheis
Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 507 Location: Finland
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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tanheis wrote:
Portrait
Focusing this lens is awful and I do it always with live view. _________________ EOS 5D mk II
Lenses: Zeiss Distagon T* 15/2.8, Nikkor 24mm 2.8, Pentacon 30 3.5, SMC Takumar 50 1.4, Nikon 50mm 1.4 AI-S & non-AI ones,Olympus OM Zuiko 28/2,Pentacon 50 1.8,Industar-50 50mm 3.5(silver & black) Tamron SP 90mm 2.5, Tokina 28-85 4, Tamron SP 35-80 2.8-3.8, Zeiss 15mm 2.8 ZE Distagon, Zeiss Tessar 45/2.8, Zeiss Planar 85/1.4,Nikon 105mm 1.8,Nikon 200/2 ED-IF AI-S,Seimar 135 2.8, Tamron SP 300mm 5.6, Tamron SP 60-300 3.8-5.4, Tamron SP 500mm 8.0 Mirror, Zenit Photosniper + Tair-3, Canon FD 800 5.6L - EOS converted
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Canon EOS M
Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
Olympus PEN-F 42mm f/1.2 |
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tanheis
Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 507 Location: Finland
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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tanheis wrote:
Lens is travelling to Norway at the moment.
Soon we will see snowy images here from Norway?
We got some snow here as snow storm arrived here on Friday. _________________ EOS 5D mk II
Lenses: Zeiss Distagon T* 15/2.8, Nikkor 24mm 2.8, Pentacon 30 3.5, SMC Takumar 50 1.4, Nikon 50mm 1.4 AI-S & non-AI ones,Olympus OM Zuiko 28/2,Pentacon 50 1.8,Industar-50 50mm 3.5(silver & black) Tamron SP 90mm 2.5, Tokina 28-85 4, Tamron SP 35-80 2.8-3.8, Zeiss 15mm 2.8 ZE Distagon, Zeiss Tessar 45/2.8, Zeiss Planar 85/1.4,Nikon 105mm 1.8,Nikon 200/2 ED-IF AI-S,Seimar 135 2.8, Tamron SP 300mm 5.6, Tamron SP 60-300 3.8-5.4, Tamron SP 500mm 8.0 Mirror, Zenit Photosniper + Tair-3, Canon FD 800 5.6L - EOS converted
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Canon EOS M
Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
Olympus PEN-F 42mm f/1.2 |
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hoanpham
Joined: 31 Jan 2011 Posts: 2575
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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hoanpham wrote:
Picking note is here. I hope to get it before the post office is closing... _________________ La migliore cura di LBA � imparare una nuova lingua. Le meilleur rem�de de LBA est d'apprendre une nouvelle langue. La mejor cura del LBA es aprender una nueva lengua. |
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DigiChromeEd
Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 3462 Location: Northern Ireland
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DigiChromeEd wrote:
Has this challenge died? _________________ "I've got a Nikon camera, I like to take a photograph" - Paul Simon |
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