It's very frustrating to miss focus, especially when you only realise when you get home as everything looked fine on the camera screen. I'd love to get the 33mm f1.4 WR. I hired it over Christmas last year and it's a stunning lens.That's the same as me. I've sold my 25mm F/2 now; I found that when I nailed it I had great looking shots, but it was very very easy to miss focus. The 35mm F/0.95 is much easier to focus, and again it's much clearer than I expected when I bought it. I still want to get a Fuji 35mm F/1.4 at some point though, which will probably replace the 7Artisans lens.
Missing focus isn't really a big issue for me, it's going to happen now and again but if I'm in doubt I may take more than one picture.
I very often use the magnified view and then it's likely a matter of going too far and dialing back. I use focus peaking sometimes if I need to be quicker but I am far happier to use peaking at wider apertures than with smaller ones as with smaller apertures lots of things can peak and when that's the case the subject may not be as sharp as it could be. With wider apertures very little peaks and therefore the subject is more likely to be sharp.
A fair few of my pictures are also taken hyper focally and some are prefocused.
Good luck with getting sharp pictures.
While I'm here. I couldn't get too close and as I only had a 35mm lens this is a 66.67% crop.
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I've decided to force myself to take the Pergear off my camera and use the TTArtisan 50mm f2 for a while No pictures today though as the weather is pretty unfriendly.
Let me know how you get on with it. That's one of the lenses I am contemplating.
Thank you! It's a great little lens, just needs the right setting. I took it on a walk around Chelmsford a few weeks ago with a group from facebook, and there were a few shots (I think I posted them earlier in this thread) that worked really well, but a few where it was just too wide. Having never used one before apart from occasional joke photos of myself with one bulbous eye and an even rounder face than usual, it's a bit of a learning curve as to when and where to use it.Impressive Kerry
I was considering selling my Mitakon 35mm f0.95 , when this one walks in and convinced me not to sell it
I've thought about selling lots of stuff but I never seem to get around to it partly because some kit seems to be worth little these days and in the end I normally just keep it for the once a year it might get used.
I’m going to try and start keeping stuff from now on. I’ve had some equipment which is worth more now than when I’ve sold it in the past. Top 3 examples being a Fuji xf 27mm - Sold for about £80, 3 or 4 years ago, and now they’re selling 2nd hand for circa £280 due to a boom in Fuji; Fuji x-pro2 (lovely camera which I sold for less than £600 and they typically go for £750-800 now); and an Olympus Pen f (sold for £450 and now go for £600+). All equipment I wish I’d kept now, but refuse to purchase again because of how they’ve inflated in value. Although, in my defence I sold the equipment as I was in need of the cash. These days I’m much better off financially, so I can afford to keep my gear, where previously gear was sold out of necessity. However, I just have to my GAS under control
You're certainly getting the weather up there. We are a little oasis of sunny days and frosty mornings, at the moment.I might as well post this here.
Mrs WW is a Christmas "Let It Snow" hat with flashing lights on it and snow outside. Taken with the Voigtlander 35mm f1.2.
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You're certainly getting the weather up there. We are a little oasis of sunny days and frosty mornings, at the moment.