Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
I would not go by that lens either as it is known to be soft in the corners, why I sent mine back and never replaced it. Nice lens but my corners where bad.
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Maybe the micro lenses on the A7R 'does' something unhelpful to wides? -tashley
That seems to imply more than just the 35mm f/2.8.
Micro - lenses in the A7r are probably more to offset the short back flange distance because of the shallow angles of incidence. Lens design is also prone to many variables, so what one lens does on a particular camera may not in fact, do the same on another. Although some of your inputs are thought provoking, I'd be careful not to do "something unhelpful" to A7r just because of a casual observation from one shoot.
Guy, mine is a reasonably good copy (my third I think) but the same thing is visible on the wide end of the Zeiss zoom. It's the smaller pixels and the micro lenses and the ray angles, I'd make an educated bet on it.I would not go by that lens either as it is known to be soft in the corners, why I sent mine back and never replaced it. Nice lens but my corners where bad.
HI JohnnyMaybe the micro lenses on the A7R 'does' something unhelpful to wides? -tashley
That seems to imply more than just the 35mm f/2.8.
Micro - lenses in the A7r are probably more to offset the short back flange distance because of the shallow angles of incidence. Lens design is also prone to many variables, so what one lens does on a particular camera may not in fact, do the same on another. Although some of your inputs are thought provoking, I'd be careful not to do "something unhelpful" to A7r just because of a casual observation from one shoot.
Hi Jono,HI Johnny
It is more than just the 35mm f2.8
It's not just one shoot (at least, not for me) - I tried thoroughly and carefully with 9 different rangefinder lenses. Smudgy corners and colour casts were the order of the day with many (but not all) of the lenses 35mm and wider - mostly longer than that was okay. . . . and I'm certainly not alone in this. Others have found the same. The A7 is better (but not completely okay). . . . It's hardly surprising, and not really a criticism either - just an observation.
For me - I'll happily use the A7 or A7r with pretty much any SLR lenses (like Leica R lenses) but I've given up using it with M lenses because the results are patchy and unpredictable - not worth the candle IMHO.
Tareq,I am not good reader mostly if it is long posts or threads, so let me ask you:
What i should buy [even i bought already], A7 or A7R?
Which lenses to buy for any of them if i get one of them?
A) I can't answer this about myself, i am not a beginner at all but i am not a master or pro, just very closer to a semi pro, but say advanced freelancer hobbyistTareq,
A) How experienced are you? (0= I never took a photo, 10= Ansel Adams)
B) Do you ever make prints? If you do, what is your maximum print size?
C) What sort of subjects do you mostly photograph?
A, B, C answeredTareq,
A) How experienced are you? (0= I never took a photo, 10= Ansel Adams)
B) Do you ever make prints? If you do, what is your maximum print size?
C) What sort of subjects do you mostly photograph?
D) Do you often shoot at 35mm or wider?
E) Are you experienced with processing from RAW or do you shoot JPEG?
F) What is you current camera?
Get the native lenses . . . .Ok, let's say you answered my half question, the another half is: what lenses to choose? suppose i go with A7 or with A7R, what lens[es] to get for this or for that?
Well, i have Canon DSLR lenses already so later will buy an adapter to use those, also i have Hasselblad manual lenses of 500 series, not sure if there is an adapter for those.Get the native lenses . . . .
55 f1.8 and 24-70 zoom
If you have other third party lenses already then try them . . . . . but don't buy them specially.
I am a poor guy, but i will add this lens for sure later to my collection, for now i will practice with TS-E 24mm II until i can afford that 17mm and adapterYou might want to add a Canon 17mm TSE with Metabones III adaptor. It'll give you a very nice wide prime with the bonus of movements for architecture and the ability to make bigger files by stitching for when you are doing landscapes and want to print large.