[JJ_SO]

... or a Schneider 

[Brightcolours]

... or a Schneider 

... or a Samsung  B)

[davidmanze]

Well, it's not "flawless under all conditions", of course. I mean the body costs like 1/5 of a D810. But since manual focus in stills is so easy, I do that a lot. The lenses I got were in the first row of lens releases from Fuji, therefore no miracles in focus speed, but lots of keepers in terms of accuracy.

 

Here's what owners of X-E2 will get on February 4th: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital...ge_08.html

 

dave, if you like to have a glance: click

  Just checked out the specs and price, you get a hell of a lot for the money there and it's really nice and compact,  

  Some nice pics, especially impressed with the handling of the reds in the flower shots, Nikon /Pentax saturate leaving not a lot of detail here there's plenty........

 

 

       I can see the temptation!

[youpii]

One can really discuss if AF on portraits is a major necessity and I think it all comes down at how dynamic a setting in a portrait session changes. In a studio, with ready lit background and the "portrait chair" one could weld the focus ring ... Out in the wild, photographer and model tend to move. I'm not certain AF will always be better than manual focus - by the way, "better" is what? More precise? Quicker? An aid like optical glasses for people with eye problems? The older I get the more I tend to trust a good AF, especially at night.

 

I also prefer to use AF for portrait but let's remember that some people did take nice portraits in the past with MF lenses:

"Gula's photograph was taken by National Geographic Society photographer Steve McCurry on Kodachrome 64 color slide film, with a Nikon FM2 camera and Nikon 105mm Ai-S F2.5 lens."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

[JJ_SO]

I would like to move this Fuji part out of the Laowa discussion because I'd like to tell some bits to the pictures.

 

Therefore I opened a new thread about this firmware-update, see http://forum.photozone.de/index.php?/top...-is-in-it/

[JJ_SO]

I also prefer to use AF for portrait but let's remember that some people did take nice portraits in the past with MF lenses:

"Gula's photograph was taken by National Geographic Society photographer Steve McCurry on Kodachrome 64 color slide film, with a Nikon FM2 camera and Nikon 105mm Ai-S F2.5 lens."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

 

Well, McCurry had in his battered FM 2 a better and more accurate matte screen than most of all DSLRs today.

 

There were also some gifted riders at the Pony Express, but they use cars these days... I don't want to make fun out of your post, youpii, but as long as we DSLR users have make detective research to get a proper screen, I see myself a happier snapper by using an EVF in LiveView - which this lens supports as well, it's available for Sony.

[youpii]

Looks pretty good....

 

Strong "cat eye" on the upper right.

 



 

 

The Sony/Minolta 135 STF had perfectly round blur on the entire frame (and zero vignetting).

See some comparison vs many 135:

http://www.verybiglobo.com/zeiss-apo-son...-review/5/

[Brightcolours]

Strong "cat eye" on the upper right.

 



 

 

The Sony/Minolta 135 STF had perfectly round blur on the entire frame (and zero vignetting).

See some comparison vs many 135:

http://www.verybiglobo.com/zeiss-apo-son...-review/5/

The narrow mounts it has to support of course makes for some cats eye. You can't avoid that, nor is it something bad. The 135mm, being 135mm, has a bit easier job there, and having to allow less mounts.

So what is your point then? That it is not an exact copy of the Minolta 135mm f2.8 STF? Yes, that is correct. And I am sure it will be less expensive too.

[JJ_SO]

If I look at the shield of the cap, I feel somebody already did some "work" to make the picture look better. youpii's point is, the bokeh is just not flawless, if cat eye highlights belong to the flaw-party. And excusing the lens, why it has to be that way doesn't improve the lens much  ^_^

[Brightcolours]

If I look at the shield of the cap, I feel somebody already did some "work" to make the picture look better. youpii's point is, the bokeh is just not flawless, if cat eye highlights belong to the flaw-party. And excusing the lens, why it has to be that way doesn't improve the lens much  ^_^

All your big aperture nikkors do catseyes just as well... Did not stop you from buying and liking them  ^_^