DSLR Photography Forum

No great artistic accomplishment here, for shure. Pavel
Look ma, no depth of field at f/1.4

I think it's great. Nice and sharp and really yellow. Surely a keeper. After all: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". Regards.....Dennis

Thanks Dennis. This lens is tiny by todays standards. It is not great for city photos (too long) and I am spoiled with zooms. Things do seem to come out crisp though. And the shallow DOF is very usefull, if you need it. I will not show you the photos where I angled the camera slightly up and bang - the wrought iron fence top was out of focus (no loss - but a good lesson when working with such lens). Pavel

This is an interesting technical test. I can see that the chain on the right is just dropping out of the plane of focus, but overall its held a strong impression of sharpness. Do you remember how far away you were from the hydrant?

(I had never noticed that fire hydrants speak French.)

Oui, a French speaking fire hydrant. It must have been the lens.
I think I was about 2 to 3 m (6-9') away, I think. It is only slightly cropped and it is effectively a 75mm lens. Of course, as you come closer, the problem gets bigger. You basicaly have to make shure that everything you want is equidistant to the sensor plane or else! It is of course worse than when you put a 50 mm lense on a full frame camera. Thanks Matthew.

That's a fun lens to play around with!