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]
Archives for 2012
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]
NEX-7 — correcting Sony 16mm images
If you’re using the Sony 16mm lens on the NEX-7 and you’re totally happy, you may want to stop reading right now. For the rest of you, as we’ve seen in previous posts, the Sony 16mm has only modest discoloration of the corners (worst case chrominance shift of 5 CIELab Delta-E, although the luminance falloff,… [Read More]