- DEFOCUS HIGHLIGHTS COLOR FINESSE MANUAL
- DEFOCUS HIGHLIGHTS COLOR FINESSE FULL
- DEFOCUS HIGHLIGHTS COLOR FINESSE ISO
DEFOCUS HIGHLIGHTS COLOR FINESSE ISO
At F/5 with the zoom, you’re forced to ramp up the ISO to 3200, which is going to be good for a small print only. Using the 35mm F/1.8 with a shutter speed of 1/10 at F/1.8, ISO 400, you can just hand hold the camera for sharp shots. You’re probably going to be at F/4 or F/5.6 when zoomed out a little bit. Something to think about you’re out taking pictures in low light with the 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 kit lens. Everything considered this is a very good lens. The corners are soft at wide apertures, but again, it may not be very noticeable in low-light. Now for the bad points well, there aren’t any bad points, that’s cool! Nit pickers might complain about light fall-off being a little heavy wide open, but it transitions gradually away from the corners, so it isn’t all that apparent, especially in low-light shots. The Sony DT 35/1.8 makes a great walk-around lens because of its small size, light weight, focal length, and fast aperture.
Color fringing is well controlled overall, and distortion is about average, but has a simple, easy to correct curve.
The good points are center sharpness is very high, even at F/1.8! The mid-sections and corners sharpen up almost to match the centers at F/5.6-8, so it would make a great landscape/architecture lens. The little Sony DT 35mm F/1.8 SAM lens turned in a stellar performance. I guess people want the same thing as they had “back in the day.” Well, Sony has now caught up with Nikon and introduced a 35mm “DT” lens of their own, and I’ll say it was worth the wait!
DEFOCUS HIGHLIGHTS COLOR FINESSE FULL
The 35mm APS-C only lenses “see” about the same as a 50mm “normal” lens does on a full frame camera. Around that same time Sony came out with the 50mm F/1.8, but that’s equivalent to 75mm, which is a little long as a normal walk-around lens. Sony got caught off guard when Nikon introduced a DX (APS-C) 35mm F/1.8 lens, which quickly became a huge seller.
Note on manually focusing be sure to use the barrel mounted AF/MF switch to de-couple the focus ring, you cannot use DMF or the thumb switch (on select Sony cameras) that just makes the AF inoperable, but does not de-couple the focus ring turning the focus ring while still engaged may damage internal components. Unfortunately, that’s the nature of Sony’s SAM or “Smooth Auto-focus Motor.” I did find the focusing to be quite accurate at longer distances, even at F/1.8, although up close using F/1.8 requires finesse to get the sharpest shots because of a very slim depth of field. Auto-focusing is quite loud when running from one end to the other, and not whisper quiet like the real Supersonic wave motors (SSM) on some of Sony’s other lenses. There’s a tiny bit of slop on the focus ring if you wiggle it by hand when engaged, or disengaged, this doesn’t affect AF operation though.
DEFOCUS HIGHLIGHTS COLOR FINESSE MANUAL
Manual focusing takes just over 1/4 turn from Close-in to infinity, and adds 3/8″ or 10mm in length to the lens at close focus. The filter ring does not turn, so your grads and polarizers will work fine. The focusing ring is at the front of the lens, and does turn during auto-focusing, so watch your fingers.
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