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Comment on Tethered Shooting Comes to Adobe Lightroom by Eugenio Yorker

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Comment on Entry-Level Digital Medium Format and the $10k Hasselblad H3DII-31 by 14 Megapixel Compact Digital Camera

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Comment on Image Quality and the Hasselblad H3DII-31 by Entry-Level Digital Medium Format and the $10k Hasselblad H3DII-31 : Photo Arts Monthly

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Comment on The Zeiss 85mm f1.4 (on a Nikon D3) by Matt Beardsley

Matt Beardsley — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:23:05 +0000

Aaron,

Thank you for the comment. I agree completely that autofocus is critical, especially on an 85mm! I’ve been bugging my poor Zeiss contact for months to press the company for Nikon autofocus. As it turns out, it’s a decision that Nikon will have to make, the decision to license Zeiss to manufacture lenses that interact with Nikon’s AF. If it happens, Nikon body/Zeiss glass would be a very hard combination to beat!

Good luck with your shoot! I would humbly recommend keeping the 85 at f2.0 or less. Manual focus on an 85mm at f1.4 is risky business!

Also, check out my new site (The Matt Beardsley Blog has moved): http://photoartsmonthly.com

Matt

Comment on The Zeiss 85mm f1.4 (on a Nikon D3) by Aaron Sylvan

Aaron Sylvan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:02:59 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful review! I actually just got off the phone with a rental company, asking whether the autofocus was faster on the Zeiss 85mm f1.4 or on the Nikkor 85mm f1.4D, and the guy on the phone said “trust me, the Zeiss is way better glass”. Duh. It was only after the ambiguous response I tried to look up the autofocus speed and of course discovered there *IS NO* Autofocus on Zeiss lenses. Aaargh!

The reason I don’t want to shoot with the Nikkor 85 f1.4D is because the AF is too slow for a moving person at f1.4. Like you, I *use* my digital technology. Even though I started taking pictures 35 years ago, being a good autofocus-sniper is an important part of “getting every picture right, the first time” I often have just a few seconds to capture a portrait that MUST be usable, and I shoot with available-light (often not much)… so a wide lens, high ISO, and zippy autofocus are absolutely mandatory.

My AF-S G f2.8 zooms are very nice, but I want the two extra stops (plus bokeh is a wonderful bonus). Shooting at 50mm doesn’t get me anything, ’cause I end up having to crop all my megapixels away. And longer lenses with image stabilization doesn’t really do it either, because the subjects are moving so I need a quick shutter speed.

Anywho, thanks much for the review – unfortunately it sounds like I’m still going to have to hold out for the way-pricey Nikkor 85mm f1.4G with AF-S… (tomorrow’s shoot will be an interesting experience in blurry shots, I think, since I’m gonna try the Zeiss anyway)

Comment on Tethered Shooting Comes to Adobe Lightroom by Steve Dyer

Steve Dyer — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:56:56 +0000

Tethered shooting from Lightroom is great. I hope on the next version they incorporate extra functions like live view, auto bracketing and possibly focus tracking features.

Comment on Hasselblad Phocus Workflow Software by Paul Eliasberg

Paul Eliasberg — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:21:45 +0000

Hi Matt, thank you for your review of Phocus. We’re thinking of adopting this as our photography club’s software of choice. There’s just one feature I need and haven’t found yet, maybe you’ve come across it during your research: flip! Ofcourse I can use GIMP to flip the image or make sure the negatives are facing the right way, but it is one of my most used features in Aperture: flip and crop.
Cheers,
Paul

Comment on An Exotic Telephoto, Perkin-Elmer 600mm Solid Cat by C. Evans

C. Evans — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:19:43 +0000

My Dad, Thomas L. Evans, worked at Perkin Elmer and with Mr. Rayces– his daughter taught me Spanish! Great people– great lens–wonderful memories….

Comment on The Zeiss 85mm f1.4 (on a Nikon D3) by The Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II : Photo Arts Monthly

The Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II : Photo Arts Monthly — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:34:17 +0000

[...] I’m a major fan of prime lenses, simple, fast, and beefy. I loved the Zeiss 85mm from my previous entry because it is a lot of all those things. While some new or drastically updated zoom lens pops up [...]