Originally posted by ivanvernon Great portrait of a charmingly attired model & great use of the 77. I should try mine again soon, but my wife keeps stealing it away from me to keep with her camera collection. She calls it our magic lens. My wife has only recently taken up photography, but says this lens takes a good picture without even trying!
I haven't played enough with it but I have a feeling she's right. This shot here was taken and has hardly seen any post processing;
Even the Autotune in LR didn't do much. Those colours and contrast are all from the lens not pp.
I'm also finding the Lensbaby Velvet 56 is a bit like that also, the shot is 80% there from a RAW file compared to other glass I shoot where I need quite a bit of picture manipulation. I've shot a lot of glass now, but the 56 and 77 so far have something about them that the shot comes out looking great as is. Great lenses for those lacking in pp skills!