Sony A7x lounge

Another at the Natural History Museum in DC

FE 28mm + a7S

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Using the EOS 100 2.8 L with a softbox on the Nissin i-40 put a piece of grey foam board behind him for the capture, detail
fo the Rii made the foam board look 'noisy', so denoised to smooth it out.-

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Carolina Mantid posing for me

I have the opportunity to get a multicoated Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40/1.4 for $360 shipped... go for it? Or go with my original plan; keep using my Oly 38/1.8 and FE 28, supplement with a C/Y Zeiss 50/1.7 and keep saving for the ZA 55/1.8 (if I'm not satisfied with the 50/1.7)?

me to,i love my minolta 135 f2,8 on the a7,if it was a 1.8 it wouldn't leave the camera,i just picked up a konica 135 manual and its great too,

You can always sell it if you don't like it.

i have a focus screen on my 60d and with the rokonon 85 1.4 i could focus ok but not nearly as well as with focus magnify on the a7,i don't use peaking often but even that to me is better than the focus screen at least for me anyways.

im also a 35 guy,i have lots of fast 50mm but i always reach for my 1.4 35mm.at least on the a7

advaitin wrote in post #17689166
You can always sell it if you don't like it.

That's a very solid point...

Def. 35, got the 55, just that focal length rarely does anything for me. Go wide or go long.

mystik610 wrote in post #17688571
Well for environmental portraits where I want to pull the background into the frame, I'll reach for a 50 or 35...so it falls into the category of not wide enough either.

I dunno...the lens is kind of awkward for portraits for me. Personal preference though!

It is a very good 'casual' medium telephoto though. The macro ability gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of working distance. 85mm lenses are usually a pain to work with outside of controlled portrait shooting, since the minimum focus distance is pretty far.

For portraits I'd take the Batis 1.8/85 over the FE 90mm F/2.8 Macro G OSS any time, any day. So far I also haven't seen any proof that the FE 90mm F/2.8 Macro G OSS is sharper than the Batis 1.8/85.

Xpfloyd that cheap remote will it allow going beyond 30 sec in bulb??

jocau wrote in post #17689251
For portraits I'd take the Batis 1.8/85 over the FE 90mm F/2.8 Macro G OSS any time, any day. So far I also haven't seen any proof that the FE 90mm F/2.8 Macro G OSS is sharper than the Batis 1.8/85.

i think with sharpness they're close. even if the batis is a bit sharper, it can't do macro. MFD is even farther on most 85mm. Bokeh though I'm sure the batis wins but I just got out of being obsess with bokeh now. The 90mm will force me to shoot at 2.8 which is good(for me). Tested shooting at my usual shooting time or ambient and I only need to go up to ISO400 which is nothing for all the A7 cameras.

I'm more into sharpness and macro capability. now if i win lotto tomorrow, i will order all the FE lenses including both the Batis.

Looking for some macro subject this morning and what i found only is a baby TRex... lol

Probably for a brief moment in time but one of my butterfly photos from yesterday is now the cover photo for a flickr group....

https://www.flickr.com​/groups/vintagebokeh/

So the offer didn't work out on the Voigtlander 40mm... I didn't take his counter offer and he didn't accept my last offer (thought for sure he would) so I can't move on that anymore... but it worked out for the best I think because before I even made an offer on the 40mm I made an offer on the C/Y Zeiss 50/1.7 that I figured would be way too low to accept, the seller didn't think so! Should be here by Friday.