Sep 15 2014, 01:23 PM
QUOTE(Eiraku @ Sep 15 2014, 03:00 AM)
The 0.95 has swirly, motion sickness inducing bokeh that you may or may not like. Myself I prefer a better designed f1.4 lens any time or something like that crazy Fuji 56mm f1.2 APD which is *designed* for bokeh. Really, people should put more apodization into lenses... especially variable ones like on the STF.
After all, bokeh is not *just* about a bigger aperture, though it helps. IMHO, some really fast lenses actually have *very* distracting bokeh with onion ring highlights all over the place - and people still think it's "wow bokeh" because it's just blurry due to the DOF.
(Reposting this from Facebook.)After all, bokeh is not *just* about a bigger aperture, though it helps. IMHO, some really fast lenses actually have *very* distracting bokeh with onion ring highlights all over the place - and people still think it's "wow bokeh" because it's just blurry due to the DOF.
I was initially very excited to hear another company picking up the gauntlet in perfect bokeh - the Fujinon 56mm F1.2 R APD - where the APD means it has an apodization filter, just like the Minolta/Sony 135mm F2.8/T4.5 Smooth Transition Focus - but with improvements, like supporting contrast detect auto-focus and the brightest aperture being F1.2/T1.7. However, for people who understand the STF look, this sample picture leaves much to be desired...
Even when the STF has bad bokeh (bad compared to its own good, as sometimes, it does) it is not as bad as this. You can see some of the out-of-focus points getting brighter before going dark (maybe they oversharpened or did a large-radius Unsharp Mask?) Also the shape of the bokeh isn't consistently circular even in the middle where it is expected to be, because it would be free from cats-eye bokeh.
Fujinon did, however do something that the Japanese lens designer at Sony said they could not do - make a bright-aperture STF lens! I asked him why he could not make a 85mm F1.4 with STF (making it a 85mm F2.2) and he said the problem was cats-eye bokeh. So the lens would have to be huge to avoid cats-eye bokeh (caused by front/rear elements being too small).
More pictures, from the photographer who shot that picture mentioned!
http://www.nathanelson.com/blog/the-fuji-56mm-apd/
Another link:
http://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/2014/9/7/...-56mm-f12-r-apd
Also, I have the Mitakon/ZhongYi Speedmaster 50mm F0.95 Dark Knight Pro edition (67mm filter thread) on my A7S. Here's minor cats-eye from the previous non-Pro version (58mm filter thread):
If you're careful with keeping the backlight out of the picture it can look pretty good:
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