Originally posted by TwoUptons What kind of corrections did you find it needed? for distortion? or something else?
I really liked the tree shot, too... the separation it terrific, and the whole thing works well with the composition.
-Eric
Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words for this shot!
I didn’t do any distortion correction (though I might have cropped a couple of degrees where I didn’t hold the camera straight). There is so much saturation and contrast available at times I’ve reduced it quite significantly in post. Even more than I find with the FA limiteds and the D-FA* 50mm.
Correction/post has been mostly curves and toning, for some shots I’ve manually corrected a little for LOCA. I would say LOCA is very well controlled (especially compared to FA77) but of course pulling curves around or using lots of shadow recovery on these wide open woodland shots can draw some small amounts out from high contrast areas - if you’re pixel peeping. The colours of the loca are not that typical (seem to be more turquoise and brighter magenta than seen in other lenses?) but they are easily fixed in Lightroom.
As an aside, I’ve found PDAF very accurate in the centre (with +2 calibration in my case). Outer PDAF points seem to be bigger on K-1, and while they are working well with the 85mm, for some scenes (trying to focus in the shadows) the body can go to focus a little on nearby bright foreground when using the outer points. I found that with other fast lenses too on occasion. Maybe something to look out for?
It’s another grey day here but I’m going to take a few more tomorrow hopefully.
John
Last edited by johnc; 07-04-2020 at 11:28 AM.