MikeEvangelist
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I'm not sure, but maybe. Or handheld vs tripod (although the high shutter speed should negate that.) The A7R is very unforgiving.Do you attribute the earlier lack of sharpness to an accident of focusing?
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I'm not sure, but maybe. Or handheld vs tripod (although the high shutter speed should negate that.) The A7R is very unforgiving.Do you attribute the earlier lack of sharpness to an accident of focusing?
Mike:I'm not sure, but maybe. Or handheld vs tripod (although the high shutter speed should negate that.) The A7R is very unforgiving.
I'm going to call Bull right here. When I shoot a fast prime I generally shoot it wide open or close to it. I'm looking at how the lens renders the scene - specifically center sharpness, transition and bokeh. PP has little to do with any of those, btw.The samples above are frankly terrible to access the lens. Give us an infinity view with distant details in the corners--like a long cityscape or landscape from high vantage, and then we can tell something. The BW pics are fun, but we can tell very little from them, or any image with heavy PP.
Yes, we'll see what that little Batis can do. I like the 24/25 fov and it will likely be much much better for interiors and architecture.I have now had the FE 28 for 2 days, and it is a really good lens. The bokeh transition for a 28mm is excellent, and yet it is sharp but yet still has character. As mentioned there is distortion, but this is very easily corrected. For street portraits and environmental shooting this lens is will be great. Of course, I feel this will be overshadowed by the Batis 25 when it arrives.
Have you tried the UWC yet?Yes, we'll see what that little Batis can do. I like the 24/25 fov and it will likely be much much better for interiors and architecture.
But that FE 28/2 is just such a great value if you accentuate its strengths. I'm very fond of how it renders wide open.
Should arrive sometime this week.Have you tried the UWC yet?
I've got the UWA arriving this week. Will report on distortion characteristics but that is an interesting theory. There certainly is a healthy amount of native distortion to the 28mm - more than I intially paid attention to but readily apparent when you see the LR profile applied. I was more concerned with the overall character of the lens and nothing has changed my mind there.I kind of wonder whether some of the 28/2's distortion profile is intentional in order for it to work better with the UW and FE converters. I don't know much about lens design, but it was a thought.
In any case, I think the resolution you lose in software correction is minimal, so I see it as a very acceptable compromise (vs. higher price, weight, size, that sort of thing!).
I have found the in-built ditortion correction insufficient. With the Adobe profile applied is ok.I've got the UWA arriving this week. Will report on distortion characteristics but that is an interesting theory. There certainly is a healthy amount of native distortion to the 28mm - more than I intially paid attention to but readily apparent when you see the LR profile applied. I was more concerned with the overall character of the lens and nothing has changed my mind there.
The "Manufacturer's Profile" in C1 Pro 8. Anyone know where these profiles come from? Is Sony actually providing a custom lens profile for use in C1 Pro 8? I do notice that there are still a small number of custom profiles for certain Sony lenses that are created by Phase One.With C1 Pro 8.x I find that the distortion of the 28/2 is automatically corrected for using the manufacturer's profile. I got mine last week along with the fisheye adapter.
Thanks. Very interesting. It's really pathetic how slow Phase One is in developing custom lens profiles for the Sony FE lenses.It is embedded in the exif and it is recognized and used both by CO and by Lr even if not with the same resulting correction in my opinion. I found that while in CO the distortion correction is almost perfect, this is not the case with Lr. On the other end in Lr there is also an Adobe profile for the lens which works much better.