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post Oct 6 2015, 04:57 PM

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QUOTE(DarkSaviour @ Oct 6 2015, 10:34 AM)
Zeiss feel.. I'm quite interested on Loxia..
how you compare this with FE 55?
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The FE 55 1.8 is quick and fast, simple to use with awesome image quality.

The Loxia 50 however, is MF, still reasonably fast (if you're used to MF) and also of awesome image quality. But with the Loxia, you get characteristic bokeh instead of the boring soft creamy bokeh the FE 55 offers (which most lenses now also do). Colour reproduction is awesome, skin tone looks really good and natural with the Loxia. Although its only a f/2 lens, the separation of subject/bokeh is phenomenal nod.gif
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post Oct 6 2015, 07:35 PM

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QUOTE(DarkSaviour @ Oct 6 2015, 05:02 PM)
I don't mind go manual at all.. just the Zeiss "Pop" and color render worth it. Do you have any portrait shot?
wanna see how the loxia good at portrait and thanks for sharing
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Next week nod.gif Just got the lens yesterday so will test run more these few days.

QUOTE(Eiraku @ Oct 6 2015, 05:17 PM)
To be fair, the 55 is also a Zeiss lol. Just that it's a Sonnar so the rendering is different: the creamy DOF of the 55 being one such characteristic (the Loxia is a Planar). Maybe the "pop" has to do with the more contrasty rendering of Planar Loxia? Sonnars are (generally) dreamy and generally have a tad less contrast by design.

Personally I prefer dreamy for portraits though.

Now, anyone with the Batis 85 yet?
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Oh, I've never looked at it that way. But yes, its probably due to the optic design.

Putting the case above in consideration, then I would rephrase saying that more lenses can render creamy bokeh such the FE 55 1.8 Sonnar instead of the dreamy onion ring bokeh of the Loxia Plannar.
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post Oct 7 2015, 06:37 AM

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Paiseh, been awhile since I otaku all these actually. I'm not even sure what kind of bokeh should these be called. Onion ring or otherwise sweat.gif sweat.gif

QUOTE(Eiraku @ Oct 7 2015, 04:55 AM)
Actually, some of the more elite bokeh snobs would prolly choke when they see "onion ring" and "bokeh" in the same sentence - but personally I'm from the "if it floats the boat, why not" camp nowadays.

For the ultimate in soap bubbles, there's always the Mayer Trioplan 2.8/100 - both the old and "reborn in kickstarter" editions, with the newer one coming straight in E-mount too.

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Mmmmmm... bubbles.

BTW, if you're interested, there's an entire thread over at MFlenses dedicated to vintage lenses with "interesting" bokeh: http://goo.gl/Lv9PqI

Okay... enough soaping... back to your baby Loxia. I really do like the colour pop. Did you PP or is it SOOC?
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All my photos pp-ed unless stated sooc.

Even without the PP the SOOC jpgs are really very awesome already. PP some more its freaking awesome.

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post Oct 7 2015, 05:58 PM

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QUOTE(Eiraku @ Oct 7 2015, 12:35 PM)
That much I can agree. Though I do think that my dislike of catadioptric bokeh highlights is almost (almost) universally shared lol.

Anyway, moving on, anybody here who shoots RAWs and DOESN'T use Lightroom as your primary workflow RAW processor? If so, what do you use and why? I'm curious.

Personally I do use LR on my primary lappy but my Atom Win10 tablet doesn't have enough grunt to even export files into JPEGs (2GB RAM = OOM errors).

Hence, I been playing around with AfterShot Pro, DXO Optics and the whole shebang of other RAW processors for the poor tablet, and right now have settled on PhotoNinja, which actually does a really good job processing my A6k RAWs, albeit slightly on the slow side of things.

What about you guys? LR? Or straight on ACR + PS right off the bat?
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I do Photoshop only, personally feels like LR is a bit clunky. I use Lightroom only when processing large amount of photos all at once for client. Else I would prefer doing it 1 by 1 for my own photos.

Just some more from this morning biggrin.gif
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post Oct 12 2015, 09:55 PM

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Took my Loxia for a spin biggrin.gif
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post Oct 21 2015, 09:08 PM

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QUOTE(idoblu @ Oct 21 2015, 08:26 PM)
you dare to buy ah? lots of fake ones around
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I rather buy real fakes for the price of RM50 laugh.gif
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post Oct 21 2015, 10:39 PM

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QUOTE(sitescope @ Oct 21 2015, 09:59 PM)
Fake if not explode in the camera body then ok
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I been using the Octopus FW50 for half a year already. So far so good, RM50 each thumbup.gif thumbup.gif
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post Oct 26 2015, 08:25 PM

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Just bought the FE28F2 today, totally loving it. Great price too smile.gif

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