What filter size does it connect to? How many f-stops does it cost? How much sharpness does it cost? Does your auto-focus still work well?
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Dear customer:The lens will attach to a 62mm lens filter. 1 stop but I recommend you bracket your shots. The auto focus will continue to work.
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Dear customer: The lens will attach to a 62mm lens filter. 1 stop but I recommend you bracket your shots. The auto focus will continue to work.
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Yes it does AF with your camera, great lens for the money, very sharp at f8 and f11, there is distortion, which can be corrected. Happy shooting.
677222
I bought it for a 400mm 5.6 & manual focus only...which is just as fast or faster than auto many times... I wanted the distance
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Yes, it works just fine. The folks who dinged it in reviews didn't read the product description carefully. You'll need to use manual focus, and your FD lens won't focus to infinity. On the other hand, you're not introducing another optical element of questionable quality. Use it for macro.
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I have this lens, I used it for several months before upgrading to the 75-300 IS USM. If you don't want blurry pictures then you will have to spend the money on better tools. I take a lot of bird pictures and was able to track them using the non IS lens but it was very difficult and unless the pools where the competitions are held are in bright light you won't get sharp pictures. I did try using this one at our dance hall, (poor light for pictures) I eventually had to go to a 50 mm 1.4 that does great in low light. You wanting telephoto though, for the money the 75-300 IS at about $450 was the way that I decided to go and I really like what I get now. I have had my t2i for nearly two and a half years. Hope this helps you a little bit. If you want to see a few of my shots with the IS lens. My flickr page is lightninrod49.
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I use two lenses for most of my work although I do have a number of other lenses for special tasks such as macro. for most of my landscapes I use a Sigma 18-250 macro lens. It's very versatile and give me photos with little chromatic aberrations. It's fairly fast at F3.5 and the nice thing is I can keep it on the camera 75% of the time. The other lens I use a lot it the Sigma 150-500 Auto focus. It's great for shooting wild life shot such as song birds near a bird feeder or a bear you don't want to get too close to. I have other lenses I use also but nearly as often as I use these two. Don
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It's a very good, an excellent lens for low light shootings. It's manual focus , and on f 1.2 it's quite soft, though you can find the point of sharpness on the photo, but from f1.4 it starts to be sharper and more interesting! Happy New Year)))
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Hello Brian. I've had this lens for four years now, and while my copy has been beset with build quality issues, I can't complain about autofocus. It's not as fast as some of the newest SSM lenses, but it tends to be quick and accurate. You can always check other reviews here: http://www.dyxum.com/reviews/lenses/Carl-Zeiss-Vario-Sonnar-T*--DT-16-80-F3.5-4.5_review318.html
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Great! Thanks for replying and letting me know. Enjoying your G2? I just got mine this weekend and love it. Turned around and dropped another $700 on lenses and filters; nothing I already had would fit.
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Without it being available yet it's hard to say just what exactly will be different quality wise. The new one will improve bokeh out of focus highlights at a price though. You will lose T-Stops (light transmission) For example 1.2 might give you the same light as f1.8-2. This is because the filter is a type of Neutral Density filter. For me I shoot low light and having that extra stop is important. The trade off combined with price just doesn't work. So what's more important to you? Bokeh quality or low light shooting? The 56mm is a fantastic lens in either version. Highly recommended! Without it being available yet it's hard to say just what exactly will be different quality wise. The new one will improve bokeh out of focus highlights at a price though. You will lose T-Stops (light transmission) For example 1.2 might give you the same light as f1.8-2. This is because the filter is a type of Neutral Density filter. For me I shoot low light and having that extra stop is important. The trade off combined with price just doesn't work. So what's more important to you? Bokeh quality or low light shooting? The 56mm is a fantastic lens... » Read More Without it being available yet it's hard to say just what exactly will be different quality wise. The new one will improve bokeh out of focus highlights at a price though. You will lose T-Stops (light transmission) For example 1.2 might give you the same light as f1.8-2. This is because the filter is a type of Neutral Density filter. For me I shoot low light and having that extra stop is important. The trade off combined with price just doesn't work. So what's more important to you? Bokeh quality or low light shooting? The 56mm is a fantastic lens in either version. Highly recommended! « Show Less
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It doesn't get super close, but it's really damn sharp. If you want to get closer, I'd suggest Sigma's 28mm f1.8 macro (they also have a 24, a 50, etc.)The macros are reviewed well enough, may not be as optimal in the corners, but for center-frame macro shots, everything else will be bokeh-d out anyway. This is more of a perfect travel lens- sharp as anything corner to corner for the landscape shots, and wide f1.8 for the people shots, while still being practical and relatively distortion-free.
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Difficult to focus. You can't use auto focus. I am concise ring returning. I did order some macro filters 4 in a set that worked.
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I use mine on a Tamron 18-80 lens. The autofocus works fine until it reaches the 4.5 focal length, as stated on the product description, this is around 55 mm, on my lens. anything higher than that I have to switch to manual Focus. I am very happy with the results I am getting while using it...
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It should work just fine with your lens. There is a bit of a color cast produced by the filters, depending on your editing skills, this is something somewhat easy to fix. I mostly use the graduated filters for sunset and notice a a purpleish tint in the sky that is otherwise not there. For sunsets, this is an acceptable fault for me. For ~$20 you cant go wrong, especially if you are buying these to determine if a higher end filter would be a good fit for your bag.
199626
You have to use manual focus with all adapters. Well not all per say but the ones that have electronics for the autofocus cost alot. we are talking 300$
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Hi, I have a Nikon d3100 and this thing was so hard to have it work. besides that you have to manually set the F number before you take the lens off to attach the tube. it was a hustle and had poor quality. I ended up getting one that was around 50 bucks,my advice? save up and get the one that can auto focus
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It's continuously variable, you'll have to estimate what f stop you're at... unless your lens has an aperture ring, in which case you just use that. It works well.