This is one of a series of posts comparing the Sony 20 mm f/1.8 G lens to the 20 mm f/1.8 Nikkor S. One of the things that photographer like to do with short lenses is make sun stars. It’s not hard. You stop your lens down as far as it will go, aim it… [Read More]
Archives for March 2020
Sony 20/1.8 G, 20/1.8 Nikkor S on Nikon Z7 — foliage
In the previous post, I did a head-to-head test of Sony 20 mm f/1.8 G lens to the Z7 and the 20 mm f/1.8 Nikkor S native lens with a Siemens Star target. Now I’ll do a similar test with a real-world subject. Here it is, with both lenses wide open on a Nikon Z7:… [Read More]
Sony 20/1.8 G, 20/1.8 Nikkor S on Nikon Z7
I’ve received a handful of requests to adapt the Sony 20 mm f/1.8 G lens to the Z7 and test the combination against the new 20 mm f/1.8 Nikkor S native lens in a head-to-head situation. Once I was reminded that I could use the TechArt E-to-Z adapter on the Sony, I warmed up to… [Read More]
Another apology
Sorry, folks. This seems to be my month for Internet screwups. Yesterday, I installed a new firewall at a different IP address than I had been using for this blog. But I didn’t install the SSL certificate on the firewall. So, after the DNS changes propagated, everybody started seeing scary warnings about the security of… [Read More]
Through-focus corner performance of the 20 mm f/1.8 Nikkor S
In the previous post, I put the 20 mm f/1.8 Nikkor S on a Z7, aimed it at an artificial star, and used the focus shift shooting (FSS) feature of the camera with a step size of 1 to move from front-focused to approximately in focus to back focused, and I composited them. In this… [Read More]
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