Roger Cicala on new 50mm lenses

[Tom Hook]

Sharpness is difficult to judge from 600*900 pics, but bokeh seems on a par with the often praised 58/1.4G, and LoCA is not noticeable:did you suppress it in PP?

I never found LoCA to be inspiring nor useful in any way (unlike a certain K.R. who wrote that the green outlines behind focus would harmonize with veggie backgrounds), so that's very good news.

Here's a crop of one of the pictures (SOOC) that has a lot of specific detail at the point of focus (which I think was the spine of the book on the top of the stack). I only used NX Studio for all these pictures and made no corrections to LoCA in any of them. The light is from a nearby window on a winter afternoon. Picture handheld (some shake probably from my 73 year old body) at f1.2 1/80, iso 64, using the Z7. Taken on the day I received the camera from Nikon (a shot from first roll of film as it were).

Unfortunately, I have not found a satisfactory way to downsize photos to Nikongear from NX Studio. Some results are better than others.

Hope this addresses your concerns.

[ianwatson]

Tom, these photographs look lovely to me. There is certainly nothing wrong with a clear view of the world. After all, nobody asks an optometrist to under-correct their vision 

[Tom Hook]

Tom, these photographs look lovely to me. There is certainly nothing wrong with a clear view of the world. After all, nobody asks an optometrist to under-correct their vision 

Thanks Ian. Funny comment about the optometrist.

[Wally]

Unfortunately, I have not found a satisfactory way to downsize photos to Nikongear from NX Studio.

Lovely series of pictures Tom! You can use the "Export" icon on the top right to open a pop up screen for downsizing and saving to different formats.

[Tom Hook]

Lovely series of pictures Tom! You can use the "Export" icon on the top right to open a pop up screen for downsizing and saving to different formats.

Thanks twice Wally, for your nice comment and your helpful tip. I do use the export function in NX Studio but what looks sharp on my screen doesn't always pass muster on these pages. I am improving though, day by day.