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Sony A7R II
Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon

Examples: Mountain Landscapes at f/1.4

Prototype lens used (pre production). Production lenses will be at least as good, and possibly better.

These images shot on the Sony A7R II using the Novoflex ASTAT lens adapter. Processing these images was a headache in terms of white balance and tint; it seems that the Sony A7R II has some odd behavior that causes strange variations in white balance (strong yellow shift) and contrast (dull), with inconsistent results (see comment at end). At the time this was written, I do not understand the behavior, or whether some camera setting is cooking the raw. Accordingly, color and contrast should be taken with a grain of salt. Ditto for other lenses on the A7R II (not just the Otus)

Examination of many images (more than shown here) shows a puzzling variation in sharpness in some images. With any high performance lens, use of a lens adapter always raises issues of parallelism, as does the sensor in the A7R II itself (SteadyShot disabled, but one wonders).

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f1.4 @ 1/25 sec, ISO 100; 2015-09-26 19:07:40
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon

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