A point worth noting... the inertia on the focus ring is very light and it seems (to me at least) that this played a big part in the focus hunting.

Gently resting a finger on the focus ring while autofocusing pretty much resolved the hunting

(Added to that that I generally use centre focus point, with the AF button - and not the half press shutter)

Matt

My findings too
Although I have used the 50/1.4 handheld on the Q with fairly reasonable results - but my focusing was only very careful (and out)... should have been 'very, very careful'

Matt

If you had the default "Search for any term" selected then your search would call up threads with "the" in them

Just putting "Tree" does the job, or "The Tree" with "Search for this phrase" selected
Also, it's helpful to choose descending post time sort order.

HTH!
Matt

And you found the Tokina 80-200 f/2.8 heavy!

Wowza!
Matt

It's still interesting
I've got the 50/1.4 on the adapter - and the DOF is still very shallow with lovely bokeh!

Manual focus is extremely sensitive at f/1.4 though! The focus peaking helps, but you need a tripod really

Matt

Ditto

If it was on the aperture blades you'll see it move with them. As it is, I can't see any breaks in the discolouration where the blades meet - so it's probably delamination.

Shame.

Matt

Brilliant Appreciate the (slightly) off topic link
Matt

Good point. It's still available from my website

In the early days of sharpening, I did find that the green channel required less sharpening (since there are twice as many green pixels). But, yes, these days the sharpening in LR is excellent.

Also worth mentioning is that the lens correction in LR4.1 makes a HUGE difference to perceived sharpness too. For example, the DA12-24 gives a great images, but when corrected (for CA & distortion) the sharpness goes up by a mile - especially on the corners. Likewise, the other day I had to process an image for inclusion in a book (hooray). It's taken two years to approve, and revisiting a K7 image taken with the DA17-70 and processed in Silkypix DS Pro I found that again, the sharpness increases substantially when handled in LR with the lens correction. 'Twas a very pleasant surprise!

Matt

A much simpler approach (and compatible with Photoshop Elements too) is to:

• duplicate the image onto a new layer
• apply the sharpening to the layer (which will include colour artifacts)
• change the layer blend mode from Normal to Luminosity

If you want to visualise it in the same way as Lab you can B&W the top layer before applying sharpening.

Luminosity blend mode is (99.9%) the L channel of the Lab mode.

Of course, one nice feature of this is the ability to fade the layer opacity and/or apply a layer mask to locally apply.

(But for me, all my sharpening is now done in LR)

Matt

The SR system needs to acquire enough data to work out the "shake factor" to work effectively.
The Not Ready marker indicates that it's not got enough data yet. There's also a time value in the EXIF

When using SR you should half press, and wait for the hand icon in the VF before fully depressing the shutter.
Matt