Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8, part 2

This is a continuation of the Loxia review that starts here.

I took a walk this morning with my new lens on the a7RII.

Here’s a distortion test, first with Lightroom’s lens corrections turned off:

There’s just a little mustache distortion.

With lens correction on:

The distortion pretty much goes away.

Here’s an image with the lens stopped all the way down to f/22. I was trying for sun stars:

Not a good lens for sun stars.

Then I opened it up all the way to try to get some flare and ghosting:

That’s pretty darned impressive.

How does it draw in general? A lot like the Zeiss 21/2.8 Distagon ZF.2, and that’s a compliment.

Here’s a 300% look at the upper right corner with no lens corrections:

And with lens corrections on, but CA removal off:

It looks like Lr is correcting for corner falloff, and not much else (except distortion, as we saw above). The LaCA is minimal.

I like this lens a lot.