In this and the next few posts I will give you an informal analysis of the performance of the Sony Zeiss 24 mm f/1.8 E-series lens. I will be comparing it to two other 24 mm lenses: the Leica 24 mm f/2.8 Elmarit ASPH, and the Leica 24 mm f/3.8 Elmar ASPH. I thought about… [Read More]
Archives for January 2012
NEX-7 — Sony/Zeiss 24mm corner errors
I got my hands on the Sony/Zeiss 24 mm f/1.8 (Official name: Sony Carl Zeiss E 24mm F1.8 ZA). It is a measure of how freaked out I am about the purple corners on the NEX-7 that the first thing I did was test for the effect. The results are good: Avg error WC error… [Read More]
NEX-7 — measuring how corner color errors vary with aperture
For the 35mm f/2 M-mount Zeiss Biogon, the aperture-dependence of the corner color errors ceases at apertures smaller (numerically larger) than f/5.6. The average and worst case chromaticity errors by f-stop, measured in CIELab Delta-E: Avg error WC error f/2 5.2 5.8 f/2.8 4.5 5.0 f/4 3.8 5.0 f/5.6 2.8 3.6 f/8 2.8 3.6 f/11… [Read More]
NEX-7 — purple corner effect varies with aperture
The day before yesterday, Lloyd Chambers published an alert about NEX-7 color shifts that vary with aperture. You can read it here Yesterday, he published an extensive set of photographs showing the effect for many M-mount lenses. To see the report, you’ll have to subscribe to his Digital Advanced Photography report. I recommend that you… [Read More]
NEX-7 — purple corners with Zeiss 21mm Distagon
It’s reasonable to think that wide-angle lenses for SLRs will have lower color errors in the corners than similar lenses for rangefinder cameras. That’s because the greater flange distance in SLRs forces designers of lenses for those cameras to reverse-telephoto (aka retrofocus) designs, which move the nodal point further from the imaging plane. Move the… [Read More]