Archives for 2017

There was a poster on DPR who made the claim that the resolution of a good lens on a full frame camera would be 1.5 times that of the same lens on a APS-C camera with the same pixel count. I thought the improvement would be less than that. We debated a while, and then… [Read More]

This is a continuation of an informal test of the $167 Viltrox 35 mm f/2 lens on a Sony a7RII camera. For comparison, I’ll be showing images with the same camera and the Zeiss 35mm f/2 Biogon-M. The test starts here. There’s a test scene that I use for looking at lens bokeh, and, although… [Read More]

This is a continuation of an informal test of the $167 Viltrox 35 mm f/2 lens on a Sony a7RII camera. For comparison, I’ll be showing some images from the Sony RX1 with its native — and exemplary — 35 mm f/2 lens. The test starts here. This is the overall test scene: In the… [Read More]

This is the first in a series of review posts about an inexpensive Chinese 35 mm lens for Sony E-mount cameras. The best way to see the rest of them is to scroll down to the bottom of this post — below the comments — and you’ll find pingback links to the subsequent posts. Click… [Read More]