Minolta a-mount 70-210mm f4.0 "Beercan" lens via the LA-EA4 on my a7RII
I recently undertook what was, for me, the unusual photographic task of adding to an entertainer’s photography portfolio. I chose to use the 30 year old screw drive ‘Beercan’ for its nice color rendition and Bokeh.
Given that conventional wisdom predicts around 1.5 inches of depth of field there should be marginal leeway for headshots but unfortunately at the level of scrutiny ‘we’ routinely exercise today, the CoC used is too liberal.
In today’s critical world, the practicalities are more like half that DOF. In all likelihood only the inherent 'softness' of this lens is keeping all those eyelashes in some semblance of focus at f4.0 and 130mm.
I tried uploading a 100% detail of this image but what I wanted to show didn't fit properly on a typical 1080P screen so I down-resed the image to A7II 4000x6000 pixels or roughly 3/4 linearly and then cropped this section out.
Very sharp modern lenses when used with a camera with no AA filter, generally require no additional base sharpening beyond default ACR parameters. That isn’t true with this lens and some additional help is needed. This results in increased granularity of detail in this case, especially considering I underexposed everything by a third EV, but at modest ISOs its not an issue in any garden variety prints.
I'm using a monitor that is roughly 100dpi so this entire un-cropped image would be 60 inches high. There is no way that these images would ever get used at a significant fraction of that, otherwise I would use an accurately exposed 100 ISO image.
The realities are that this is not state-of-the-art prime lens quality, but it is also true that for any realistic purpose this image might be used for, the lens is not the limiting factor.