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]

There are two pieces to bokeh. The first is what things look like when they are well out of focus (OOF), and the second is how the transition from OOF to in-focus happens. The second is complicated, but the first is very simple. What you see when part of the image is well OOF is… [Read More]

This is a continuation of my testing of the two new 20 mm f/1.8 lenses from Sony and Nikon. These fit E-mount and Z-mount cameras respectively, and are part of a push by Nikon for a big place in the full frame mirrorless camera (MILC) market, and a defense by Sony of its historical dominance… [Read More]

It is a rare  occurrence that two rival camera manufacturers viewing for the top of one market (in this case full frame MILCs) introduce two lenses of the same focal length and aperture simultaneously. Yet that is what has just happened with the Sony 20 mm f/1.8 G E-mount lens and the Nikon 20mm f/1.8… [Read More]