"If you frame your picture and you happen to have a minuscule detail just in front of the main subject that you intend to focus on, the camera (the lens) picks it up immediately and focuses on that minute point that is probably of no interest to you."
Your lens might be misfocusing or your RF might be off? If you hate the 150 that mich,I'll take it off your hands for a little bit :) There is a external VF for the 150mm, you should've gotten it with your lens! parallax sounds odd, thats an issue with framing I thought, not focus. With the big question mark: Shall I take another couple of identical shots, just in case I've screwed up this one? You only have 10 shots in a 120 film roll. So in all, in order to shoot with a 150mm lens, you should simply take your time because between framing, composing and focusing, unless you're an expert, it takes about 5-8 minutes. Thirdly, the lens should come with a dedicated external viewfinder like in the 43mm because there is no way people should strain their eyes to focus on 0.5 % of the frame while the rest falls outside the picture boundaries. The result is that the big picture is blurred and the minute stupid detail is in sharp focus. If you frame your picture and you happen to have a minuscule detail just in front of the main subject that you intend to focus on, the camera (the lens) picks it up immediately and focuses on that minute point that is probably of no interest to you. Secondly, I think there is a lot of parallax error in that lens. And if you're wearing glasses, you'd better switch to contacts otherwise you're doomed. You need magic eyes to be able to frame and concentrate on the details. I got the 150mm lens a couple of weeks ago and, honestly, I find it extremely demanding and not at all flawless, like most people would tend to make me believe.įor starters, I find it ridiculous that the frame in the viewfinder is just so small. Its very similar to a Leica Summicon 75mm APO lens. The small framelines and the minimum focus distance can be annoying or troublesome at times but this lens draws beautifully, it has a very unique character. Ive only just got the 150mm but I can tell already it is a very special lens. I have 150mm and a 65mm lenses for my Mamiya. Like said above, faces look better shot from 8 feet than 4.
If framing is roughly the same with 80 and 150 at minimal distance, the 150 has shallower dof, and narower perspective you'll see les background, but it will be magnified more. I've heard complaints about the maximum aperture when doing portraits not giving shallow enough DoF. It doesn't do headshots without cropping, but gives a fine half-length portrait. I like it like other medium telephoto lenses (equivalent to a 75mm on 135 format) to get moderately sized details and candids. The 150 has a unique character in terms of rendered color and contrast. THe 80 is one of the sharpest lenses made. 'Tis a bit confused what you're actually asking. The term is not really clear - I guess you mean minimum focal distance? Then you go on to ask about framing. (And sometimes helped out by camera tilts on large format.) On the other side, people use shorter than "normal lenses" (80mm roughly on MF) both to "get it all in the frame" and also to emphasize things in the foreground with the subject distortion that occurs with these lenses - ever see one of those shots with a looming rock on a beach in the foreground and a eensy weensy little sun in the distance?. Another reason is reach, for instance when you can't physically get closer to your subject but you want to fill more of the frame with it. So people's facial features look more natural, like noses. That is one of the main reasons to use a longer lens. So, the 150 will let you stand farther away from a subject and will give you a so-called "compressed" look. Keep in mind that as you get closer with a wider lens, there is more distortion of the subject. That is a big difference, maybe an impossible distance for you to maneuver with your feet. With the 150mm lens you'd need to stand 86 feet away from it.
With the 80mm lens you'd have to stand 46 feet away from it to get it all just inside the frame. unless you are backing up to a cliff.īut, say you want to photograph a subject (for instance a building facade) that is 40 feet wide. Say you want to photograph a scene with a person, and this scene is 6 feet wide in total, you'd have to stand 7 feet away with the 80mm lens and 13 feet away with 150mm to barely contain the subject in the horizontal film plane. It seems that the MFD of the 150 is a little longer than the 80, so what are the advantages of the 150 over the 80? It seems like you'd get the same framing with either lens, just the 150 youd be farther away.
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