Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Aperture Series: Sunrise Over Patriarch Grove
Related: Inyo National Forest, Patriarch Grove, peak bagging, Sony, Sony FE, Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM, Sony Lenses, White Mountains
This aperture series from f/1.2 through f/5.6 evaluates the Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM at far distance into the challenging lighting of a sunrise orb backlighting a deeply-shadowed foreground.
Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Aperture Series: Sunrise Over Patriarch Grove
Includes images up to full camera resolution from f/1.4 to f/5.6.
Sony did their homework here, and created a masterpiece*. The ,Sony 50/1.2 GM is a lens for which one buys the camera body, the preferred camera body at this writing being the Sony A1* (Sony A7R IVa is a good choice too).
* Meanwhile in the land of unicorns and rainbows, Leica M users pay 3X to 6X the price for vastly inferior sharpness accompanied by overwhelming flare problems making it impossible to shoot such a scene at all.
Sony A7R IV + Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM
ENV: PatriarchGrove, altitude 11400 ft / 3475 m, 45°F / 7°C
RAW: LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, push 1.2 stops, +100 Shadows, -59 Highlights, +20 Whites, +10 Blacks, +20 Contrast, +30 Dehaze, +15 Clarity, USM {8,50,0}
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