Author: | | Junior Member Registered: August, 2019 Posts: 25 3 users found this helpful | Review Date: March 28, 2021 | Recommended
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| 645Z FA150MM F2.8
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7. | | | | | Pentaxian Registered: January, 2009 Location: East Bay Area, CA Posts: 6,612 6 users found this helpful | Review Date: December 3, 2017 | Recommended | Price: $1,000.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | light, super sharp | Cons: | plastic body, if that's a con | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 9
Value: 9
Camera Used: 645D and 645Z
| | I've owned this lens for many years and have tended to use it for landscape panos where I need some reach. For that, stopped down to f/9-f/11 it is a wonderful solution.
I had not paid much attention to this lens for portraits until very recently. At f/2.8 it is too soft for my liking, but stopped down to f/4, the lens makes a great head and shoulder portrait lens. The bokeh is very nice from 2.8-5.6 . On pixel peeping a recent portrait shoot, the irises and eyelashes of my subjects were ridiculously sharp, more so than I require from a portrait lens. I am again impressed with the versatility of the lens.
The body is light due to plastic shell build, which is not my fave vs the buttery smooth metal focus rings of the A series lenses, but, for an AF lens, I am willing to overlook that, lol.
recommended!!
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wide open: Old Shiloh Church | | | | Forum Member Registered: July, 2017 Posts: 51 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: November 17, 2017 | Recommended | Price: $400.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | really light, sharp, cheap | Cons: | plastic construction | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 9
Value: 10
| | My copy on a 645z would be hard to fault. Central sharpness is ok wide open, very good by f5.6. Probably optimum at f8 to f11.
Except to say that the light weight makes it feel cheap, I can't think of any real negative. Combination of price, IQ, and light weight make this lens altogether worth consideration.
| | | | Forum Member Registered: January, 2013 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 71 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: May 1, 2015 | Recommended | Price: $1,000.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Sharp, bokeh, lightweight, fast AF, aperture ring | Cons: | wish it is f2.0! | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: 645D
| | if you want a fast portrait prime... you can't go wrong with this. 10/10.
It's SUPER lightweight for 150mm 2.8, small size definitely helps ability to handhold it.
Nice deep lens hood really protects the lens very well. Love the hood.
Very sharp at 2.8, can't complain, though not as sharp as 90mm SR macro.
Bokeh is excellent. Really gives the 3 dimensional look.
Having aperture ring is nice! easily adaptable to mirrorless.
| | | | | Pentaxian Registered: February, 2010 Location: Eerbeek Posts: 1,850 2 users found this helpful | Review Date: February 17, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $370.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | sharp, good AF, fast, light | Cons: | no f. 32; ř67mm | Sharpness: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
| | A great portrait lens, at the 90mm equivalent of 35 FF—wrinkles and pores are sharp even when used wide open, at least in the centre. Nice bokeh. I found the AF fast and accurate enough, while the lens is fast and light—at least relatively speaking. It focuses closer than its A 3.5/150mm sibling (which is no dog itself, but different). It has a convenient bayonet hood. Smallest aperture is only 22.
| | | | Junior Member Registered: November, 2009 Posts: 29 | Review Date: August 8, 2011 | Recommended | Price: $550.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | bokeh, size, sharpness | Cons: | none | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
| | This is my most used lens on the 645D. While the corners are a little soft wide open, by f3.4 things sharpen up and the center seems critically sharp. I thus try to use from f3.4 to f5.6, depending on how much DOF I want in the image.
It is excellent for portraits as well as landscape and still life subjects. Focusing is very positive and fast. This lens combined with the 300/5.6 makes for a very light weight telephoto travel package.
| | | | Forum Member Registered: July, 2011 Posts: 72 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: July 29, 2011 | Recommended | Price: $750.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | Focus, sharpness, weight | Cons: | very shallow depth of field at f 2.8 | | Very fast and accurate focus. This lens is a wonderful portrait lens. From f4 to f11 you get very good results. The fast aperture of 2.8 combined with the long focal length provide a very shallow depth of field.
I use this on a 645D and it performs very well.
| | | | Site Supporter Registered: November, 2008 Location: Washington DC, USA Posts: 632 | Review Date: May 15, 2009 | Recommended | Price: $400.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Relatively lightweight. Fast. Sharp. | Cons: | Close focus distance, but this is minor. | | This is a fantastic portrait lens. It is wonderfully fast and I have no problems with autofocus on a 645N body. Adding some extension tubes or a close up diopter filter are the only things that make it better. Stellar, lovely lens.
| | | | Loyal Site Supporter Registered: July, 2008 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 8,588 | Review Date: March 25, 2009 | Recommended | Price: $600.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | Well build, quick shift | Cons: | Heavy | | Very bright portrait lens. It is heavy (500gr) but well balanced with the body. | | |