Hey guys loving my 5N and now strongly considering either 7 or 6. I read today something about a magenta color cast when shooting fast primes wide open (basically exactly what I've bought into NEX for, lol). How real is this issue ?? Any reason it happens on the 7 and not on the 5N ? Will the 6 suffer the same ? Sorry, I'm really clueless about this issue and trying to understand it. Thanks !
It's less an issue of lens speed than focal length & it only happens with rangefinder lenses, so if you're using slr lenses there is no issue. The color cast can and does happen on both the 5N and the 7. It is easily corrected using CornerFix.
Related links: • https://www.talkemount.com/f12/show-what-your-adapted-lens-looks-like-your-nex-camera-12/index12.html#post6069 • https://www.talkemount.com/f27/cornerfix-1202/ Generally the NEX7 seems to be more prone to purple fringing than the 5N. Another thing too about the 16 megapixel 5N sensor is that it seems to produce less noise at high ISO than the 21 megapixel NEX7 sensor. The NEX6 I think will have the same sensor as the 5N...
I can see how that would be more of a problem with the original NEX 3 and 5, but the C3, 5N and 7 should have the microprism sensors that are designed to compensate for the angle of incidence of the ray at the corners. Regardless, fast primes are just inherently soft wide open. Traditionally, it's been described as like having vaseline smeared on the lens. Even back in the film days. Some examples how things tightened up even one stop up from wide open. Test of the Pentax 50mm f1.4 M42. Test of the Olympus 50mm F1.4 OM.
The photos with purple fringes on both those links shows pics taken with the Cosina Voigtlander 15mm F4.5 lens - on Bolampau's NEX7 and Bimjo's 5N. I suspect it has more to do with rangefinder lenses whose rear optical element is really close to the sensor. I could be wrong but I don't think purple fringing has anything to do with shooting with wide open aperture. Perhaps Bimjo can shed more light on the matter (excuse the pun). Does your CV 15mm purple fringe in all the aperture settings, Bimjo?
Thanks for those findings. Looks like the corner sharpness of the Olympus is better than the Pentax when wide open...
So far, yeah. Yet I've seen several people with the CV15/5N combo that have no issues whatsoever. I initially thought it might be the lens adapter. I'm using a Rainbow Imaging L39-NEX and somebody using a Voigtlander M-NEX adapter has color shift/vignette as bad as me. Must be the way I hold the camera or something. LOL
