Yep. Didn’t want to get into debating it, but you’re right. Depth of field is negligible, and that’s the fun of it. Did a brick wall test, and it performed well at f1.2, although even here one probably runs out of DOF at the corners Fun stuff.
Paul > On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:35 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Doesn't look that soft to me - just an extremely narrow depth of field. > I'm not sure that the plane of focus is on the leaf Paul suggests; it > looks to me as though the sharpest focus is on the stem or closest edge > of the rear one of the two leaves projecting into the central void. > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:31:39PM +0000, Jack Davis wrote: >> Somewhat soft, but a bit better than might be expected at F1.2. >> >> J >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:55:58 PM >> Subject: Miserere's A 50/1.2 >> >> It???s a beauty. Like new to my eyes, and in the original box with the >> packing stuff. >> >> The lens, which is much more compact than i expected: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223762&size=lg >> >> And a lilac bush branch in my yard, shot wide open, focusing on the >> foreground leaf at right: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223763&size=lg > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
