Canon FL 50mm 1.8 on Sony A7R Results (1964-1971)

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One of the most exciting things about a camera that has a short focal flange distance is that nearly any 35mm lens ever made will work. I decided to start out by trying my Canon FL, Canon FD and Nikon Kogaku lenses first, and my first results with my Canon FL 50mm 1.8 was astounding at this medium format resolution range. Note all the images below are unsharpened RAW.

Click here for more info: http://www.grahamclarkphoto.com/sony-a7r-review-canon-ef-lenses/


Take a look:


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San Francisco Skyline from Treasure Island | 97s - F11 - ISO 80 | Canon FL 50mm 1.8 (1964 – 1971)


Take a look at the 100% crop of the bridge detail:


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Take a look for yourself and download the RAW file (.ARW), the original TIFF16BIT (200MB+) and the hi/low-res JPEGs directly by clicking here: https://app.box.com/s/03vu6r4c05d6q4v5550a


There's a bit of flare here on the originals that you may not find on modern lenses, however my real interest in these lenses will be black and white street photography, not landscape. Just wanted to test these on something of such extreme detail before my street photography photography meetup tomorrow in San Francisco's Chinatown.


Huge win on sharpness and corner detail, completely shocked me even on playback of image on the camera, but even more so on a 27" Thunderbolt. Will post back here with images from the Streets of Chinatown in B&W (Streets of Chinatown in B&W - Landscape Photography SF (San Francisco, CA) - Meetup) tomorrow sometime.


Graham
 
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Today I shot Chinatown in Black and White here in San Francisco. From the 600 images (29.52GB), below are the top selects. The first half are with the Canon FL 50mm 1.8, second half are with the Canon FD 50mm 1.8:


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Streets of Chinatown in B&W | 1/320 - F8 - ISO 125 - Canon FD 50mm 1.8 with Sony A7R


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Serve Yourself | 1/640 - F8 - ISO 320 - Canon FD 50mm 1.8 with Sony A7R


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Looking East | 1/250 - F8 - ISO 200 - Canon FL 50mm 1.8 with Sony A7R


Click here to see all the other images


Click here to view and download the RAW, TIFF, DNG and hi-res JPEG files (5.2GB)


Click here to view the astounding sharpness of the Canon FD 50mm 1.8 with the Sony A7R. Can you spot the photographer?
 

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