Deadbear77
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Incredible quality about these images and I've heard so many great things about this lens. I see you are using it on a A7RII. I use the a6000 and if I was thinking of getting a lens for portraits not sure if the 85mm f1.4 or this lens would be better option on the APS-C body.If this lens bears Sony or Zeiss logo, people would gladly pay $1400 for it.
This is a reason why they haven't not release such a focal length due to the goodness of Samyang 135mm f2.
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The 85 1.4 is nowhere near the quality of the 135. I have had 2 copies of the 85 and both were good but not great. If you don't mind manual focus the canon FD 85 1.8 is smaller and a better performer. I also had the "dream lens" 85 1.2 by zonghi. It was sharper than the 85 1.4 but it fell apart and I returned it. Same thing happened with my 50mm .95, fell apart also after about 2 months of use.Incredible quality about these images and I've heard so many great things about this lens. I see you are using it on a A7RII. I use the a6000 and if I was thinking of getting a lens for portraits not sure if the 85mm f1.4 or this lens would be better option on the APS-C body.
Gary
a7m2 body was used for those 5 images.Incredible quality about these images and I've heard so many great things about this lens. I see you are using it on a A7RII. I use the a6000 and if I was thinking of getting a lens for portraits not sure if the 85mm f1.4 or this lens would be better option on the APS-C body.
Gary
I use the Mitakon f1.2 for portraiture ocassions only or maybe didn't use it enough. Mine still doing fine.The 85 1.4 is nowhere near the quality of the 135. I have had 2 copies of the 85 and both were good but not great. If you don't mind manual focus the canon FD 85 1.8 is smaller and a better performer. I also had the "dream lens" 85 1.2 by zonghi. It was sharper than the 85 1.4 but it fell apart and I returned it. Same thing happened with my 50mm .95, fell apart also after about 2 months of use.
Let me guess. You used Canon? Their 135L was a joy to use, and relatively small and light.The 135mm was once my favorite for full frame shooting. Now, however, I am more lokely to use 200mm or 100mm...