Sorry, for leaving you without impressions, before posting, I was trying to sort some picturess out. It didn't help that yesterday started with a phone call from a friend (in a different time zone) at 4:19am. When I finally said "do you know what time it is" she replied "yes, but you are always awake anyway"
. That was followed by a 3 hour conference call starting at 5:15am on our 2010 plan :lecture: and then to work and a dinner until 10:30 PM.
The lens is small and light. It's little shorter than two 20mm pancakes stacked. Anything non-macro in distance is a complete breeze to focus and the lens is fast and sure. Once you get really close, I've have had the focus rack in and out but I also haven't really worked out the working distances and want to work with changing around the size of the focus box.
So far I only have some macro test shots of some flowers around the apartment and some tests of specular hightlights. This weekend I will do more and will try and get some input from Jono and post it all in the new review section.
First up...during the conference call the sun was just beginning to rise. from my bedroom. The lights in the upper left are the Bay Bridge.
Not well exposed and not critically sharp but pretty low light ISO 800 f2.8 1/20
Looking at the bokeh - as Jono's pictures have pointed out, simply lovely.
Ok, lets move to portrait distance (ok not a good joke)
Yes you can get infinity focus and get good detail-excuse color of water user error on making the jpeg.
On my way home from the bridge I was caught in some rush hour traffic so what's a girl to do. Play with lights. So I focused close on the dashboard of the car and then lifted the camera to get the lights from the streets and the cars and see what happened. Yes, I know this needs to go in the "photographing your bokeh" thread...just there is really no subject matter here just trying to see how they rendered.
yellow + red is the car in front of me
same idea at f9
So, I will formalize all of this over the weekend