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Wimarys.com si the first site posting a more detailed review of the new [shoplink 26501 ebay]Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 Full Frame E-mount lens (preorder here on eBay)[/shoplink]. They posted a sharpness test article (here) and a bokeh test article (here).
Well, the reviewer says the one challenging thing is actually…to find the focus point at f/0.95 aperture 🙂 And that’s what they write about the sharpness of the lens:
First image is taken at F/0.95. It is indeed soft. Not in an unpleasing way, but don’t expect a razor sharp focus point. There is heavy vignetting apparent too.
And about the bokeh his conclusion is quite “artistic”:
If you have a busy background, you get an effect not unlike an abstract impressionist painting. Think Excavation by Willem de Kooning.
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why don’t good photographers review these lenses?
Cos marketing sends them to bloggers instead…
Because good photographers sell their photos, not cameras. And, they don’t have a blog for camera reviews, but for their projects, books.
Nerds test, write and buy. Some of them happen to be photographers and earn a living with it, what? A mix of “it”.
good photographers use equipment and select it for their use, not for pixel-peepers and nerds.
Most professionals realize the Zeiss 55/f1.8 wide open is near perfect — these lenses are band-aids for smaller formats (as are Speedboosters).
At F0.95 (and even higher) the Vignette looks decentred. Saw that on MX pictures too. Upper left is stronger.
It’s not decentering in the conventional sense. I’ve seen this happen with different cameras and lenses with strong vignetting.
I note he doesn’t tell us what he tried to focus on. If he was aiming at the centre of the salt shaker, would the lettering – even the central b – lie within the sharp area at 0.95?
Unless you’re in the field of taking photos of salt shakers, Lego portraits, etc. it really doesn’t matter what exactly he focused on. The DOF at these distances would be really low to the point the number of things you could shoot would be very limited.
That’s what I thought. I can’t understand, in the circs, how he could conclude that the lens lacks sharpness.
Yes, the curved surface also doesn’t help at all.
Considering that the focus distance was roughly about 30 to 50 cm, DOF would be between 2 and 5 mm at 0.95.
Even stopping down to f4 would not bring the whole box into the sharp area…
Very rarely, I’ve seen an equally useless lens test.
LOL
Well it’s not too too bad… but found the “think Excavation by Willem de Kooning” part funny though.
Why oh why does he post images about bokeh photographing worst case scenario with foliage in the background? I wanna see some decent portraits with a nice bokeh-worthy background. No stupid trees. Of course they look like crap. Some good compositions please for the next “review”.
He did, you noob:
http://wimarys.com/mitakon-50-mm-f0-95-settings-on-the-sony-a7/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=1897&relatedposts_position=1
Can’t help noticing an abundance of trees in the background of these too…
Well, these tests showed *the worst* this lens can do, which looks at least acceptable to me. So I’m pleased 😉
“If you have a busy background, you get an effect not unlike an abstract impressionist painting.”
Not quite. The bokeh sucks. It is as simple as that. There are far better lenses for cleaner/creamy bokeh.
The ZM Sonnar 50/1.5 or the incomparable Minolta (or Sony) STF 135/2.8.
Bokeh is a subjective thing. This one sucks as a smooth bokeh lens is all 🙂
I don’t want to be dismissive of someone trying to help, but the examples are not good (underexposed and a really bad yellow cast) and he states the obvious to the few who would wish to buy such a lens!
Unfortunately, though, to get a good representative idea of the performance you would need shots taken at a high level of competence (both model and photographer) to see whether it is even worth using wide open and that is a rare thing…
First- this lens is dirt cheap. Performance per dollar it over delivers. .95 is stupid fast and if you need it for emergency situations this will do. With a little bit of PP you can make the thing really shine.
Also, I rarely think tree leaves are a good subject matter in the background in terms of bokeh. It always looks like chewed up garbage.
hey, i just got it, and started reviewing it on:
http://www.yannickciancanelli.com/manual-lens-review-mitakon-50mm-0-95-speedmaster-on-a-sony-a7/
cheers 🙂
Here an amateur’s review http://goo.gl/kS3nP3