5/5/2023 0 Comments Cityscapes panorama video![]() ![]() I'm a big fan of night cityscapes and it's pretty difficult to find good blogs or reviews specifically about this type of photography. Īctually i was not looking for alternative lens options because i just bought the 85 Art, just interested to read how you guys think about using a 85mm prime (or in range of) for shooting panoramas of cityscapes and architecture. (I'm mainly using a Zeiss Milvus 25mm for landscapes, sometimes the Milvus 50mm on Nikon F mount and Z mount via FTZ adapter.)įield curvature of the Zeiss Otus 1.4/55mm. But maybe the OP was just curious about what lenses other people use. My understanding was that the OP was asking for possible alternatives to the Sigma Art, so I suggested a possible alternative. Then, the Otus is probably not optimized for landscape photography, but for larger apertures. Astigmatism is partially captured, but it is a particularly awful kind of blur in landscape images that I would rather have masked by general softness than highlighted by absolute acuity - if it is present. Resolution and field curvature is generally not measured at infinity. Coma, for example, is not captured well in resolution test charts, because they do not have specular highlights. There may be other relevant qualities, however, that are not as well captured. There is a good chance that the Sigma 85mm will outperform the Zeiss Batis 85mm on resolution. PS your flickr already has many awesome cityscape panos Keep in mind the 3.76µm pixel size on the a7r4 starts to be diffraction limited at F/5.4 but the lens aperture diffraction will be more apparent, so shooting many lenses up to f/11 should do fine.Ĭheckout the no longer updated for lenses, a bit more accurate than dxo, imo. ![]() This f/stop will determine your hyperfocal distance as well. The otus 85 peaks in line pairs at F/8, others will differ from between around F/4 to F/11. Even in single shot mode the a7r4 has plenty of pixels for 3:1 ratio crops across the frame.ĭo some research into what is the optimum aperture in terms of line pairs per picture height of whichever lens you choose to maximize details. ![]() One shutter press, no movements no compositing etc. Or are you cropping from a 16 shot pixel shift? I have great results cropping the multishot S1R with the otus 85 and others. Your sigma 85/1.4 should do great, as will the otus 85, otus 100, milvus 135, zeiss-sony 135/1.8 za, sony stf 100 and even many 200mm high quality primes.Īre you stitching? If so then consider medium and large format lenses with a shift mount or adapter or cambo actus or similar. I use longer lenses for panoramic landscapes/cityscapes quite often. If nothings changing, you'd get better quality and basically a larger sensor by joining several frames. If you have clouds or something moving across the frame, or changing light at sunset, it might goof up a panoramic. But, you'd get better quality than cropping, say, 50mm or so to panorama. I don't usually get around to stitching and panoramas myself, since I don't enjoy pp. I guess you'd kinda be at less than 85mm, if you did panoramic with 85mm, though? I suppose if you are stitching, you can kinda zoom that way? I generally like zooms for landscape in the tele range. Given the published data on resolution and distortion, I would try the Zeiss Batis 1.8/85mm.Īccording to dxomark the 85 1.4 Art scores about the same as the Otus 85 which is considered the holy grail of mid tele just behind the T* 2/135 ZE. For what I was doing yesterday and in the neighborhoods in which I was walking, I was too close using the 56/1.2. Marcus, the two pictures I took, and posted just below your post, were with the Fuji 56/1.2, and “85 equivalent.” I ordinarily use my 35/2 (50mm eq.) and found myself yesterday I should have brought the latter with me. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. (But when i look at the detail and microcontrast i get with the sigma Art lenses, they are on another level, this is why i started to buy primes for land and cityscapes mainly). I have used the 70-200 in the past anything between 70 and 200mm with good results. Has anyone tried mid telephoto primes for land or cityscapes? Especially 85mm. I'm planning to take it with me for panorama work on the A7RIV. I recently bought the Sigma 85 1.4 Art because it is optically one of the best mid telephoto lenses for EF mount. ![]()
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