I have had a few opportunities to try out my new lens for portraits. Let me show you some examples:
There were several examples of very good out of focus backgrounds in this session. Handheld indoors as the evening sun shone through the curtains.
Using a narrow aperture to get some decent DoF. The picture will be used for a poster in upcoming local elections. Unfortunately the background will be orange.
Decently shallow DoF at f/2.8.
There is really not much to dislike about this lens except for the price and the weight. I was a bit worried about LoCa, but as you can see in #3 the hairs in front of and behind the plane of focus has no odd colours, so I guess it is OK.
Focus is fast and I suspect that the OOF shots are a result of user error rather than the lens or camera missing focus. This happens with this camera, but less and less as I practise.
I have done some test shots showing bokeh, but they are so boring that I see no reason to show them. Bokeh is calm, with no cats eyes and very pleasing.
No additional sharpening has been done, the lens is sharp!
There were several examples of very good out of focus backgrounds in this session. Handheld indoors as the evening sun shone through the curtains.
Using a narrow aperture to get some decent DoF. The picture will be used for a poster in upcoming local elections. Unfortunately the background will be orange.
Decently shallow DoF at f/2.8.
There is really not much to dislike about this lens except for the price and the weight. I was a bit worried about LoCa, but as you can see in #3 the hairs in front of and behind the plane of focus has no odd colours, so I guess it is OK.
Focus is fast and I suspect that the OOF shots are a result of user error rather than the lens or camera missing focus. This happens with this camera, but less and less as I practise.
I have done some test shots showing bokeh, but they are so boring that I see no reason to show them. Bokeh is calm, with no cats eyes and very pleasing.
No additional sharpening has been done, the lens is sharp!
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