Archives for March 2015

I performed a real-world test of four 35mm lenses on the Sony alpha 7 Mark II: Sony/Zeiss (Zony) 35mm f/2.8 Zeiss 35mm f/2 Biogon M-mount Zeiss 35mm f/2 DIstagon F-mount Nikon 35mm f/2 Nikkor-D The scene, wide open with all the lenses so you can get an idea of the light falloff towards the edges:… [Read More]

This continues with the bokeh testing of the previous post. The candidate lenses are: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor G Coastal Optical 60mm f/4 UV-Vis-IR Apo Macro Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG Art Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus At f/4, we can show samples from all the lenses. Overall: Even at f/4, the… [Read More]

This continues with the bokeh testing of the provious post. The candidate lenses are: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor G Coastal Optical 60mm f/4 UV-Vis-IR Apo Macro Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG Art Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus At f/2.8, we can show samples from all but the Coastal Optical. Overall: The sunlit… [Read More]

This continues with the bokeh testing of the previous post. The candidate lenses are: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor G Coastal Optical 60mm f/4 UV-Vis-IR Apo Macro Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG Art Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus In this post, the three lenses that have f/2 as an available aperture are tested… [Read More]

A few days ago, I reported on the performance of a number of normal lenses on the Nikon D810 with a distant landscape as the target. Today, I’d like to look at the performance of the lenses for out-of-focus parts of the image. The lenses are: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor… [Read More]