• site home
  • blog home
  • galleries
  • contact
  • underwater
  • the bleeding edge

the last word

Photography meets digital computer technology. Photography wins -- most of the time.

You are here: Home / The Last Word / Another medium tele test — Bokeh

Another medium tele test — Bokeh

March 5, 2016 JimK 1 Comment

This is a continuation of a test of the following lenses on the Sony a7RII:

  • Zeiss 85mm f/1.8 Batis.
  • Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 Otus.
  • Leica 90mm f/2 Apo Summicron-M ASPH.
  • AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 G.
  • Sony 90mm f/2.8 FE Macro.

The test starts here.

It’s time to take a look at bokeh. I’ll organize this by aperture.

Zeiss f/1.4
Zeiss f/1.4
Nikon f/1.4
Nikon f/1.4
Batis f/1.8
Batis f/1.8
Batis f/2
Batis f/2
Leica f/2
Leica f/2
Zeiss f/2
Zeiss f/2
Nikon f/2
Nikon f/2
Sony f/2.8
Sony f/2.8
Batis f/2.8
Batis f/2.8
Leica f/2,8
Leica f/2,8
Zeiss f/2.8
Zeiss f/2.8
Nikon f/2.8
Nikon f/2.8
Sony f/4
Sony f/4
Batis f/4
Batis f/4
Leica f/4
Leica f/4
Zeiss f/4
Zeiss f/4
Nikon f/4
Nikon f/4
Sony f/5.6
Sony f/5.6
Batis f/5.6
Batis f/5.6
Leica f/5.6
Leica f/5.6
Zeiss f/5.6
Zeiss f/5.6
Nikon f/5.6
Nikon f/5.6
Sony f/8
Sony f/8
Batis f/8
Batis f/8
Leica f/8
Leica f/8
Zeiss f/8
Zeiss f/8
Nikon f/8
Nikon f/8

Feast your eyes. I don’t think I have anything useful to say by way of narration.

The Last Word

← Getting to the point of best focus from raw MTF50 curves Another medium tele test — more bokeh →

Comments

  1. David Braddon-Mitchell says

    March 6, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    Since this is an expression of taste, maybe I’ll spill onto the comments box..

    First all are fine; differences aren’t night and day (and they very rarely are)

    But the Leica and the Sony seems marginally better than the others; followed by the Batis and the Otus, and finally the Nikon. But I’d be happy with any of them…

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

May 2025
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr    

Articles

  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

Category List

Recent Comments

  • bob lozano on The 16-Bit Fallacy: Why More Isn’t Always Better in Medium Format Cameras
  • JimK on Goldilocks and the three flashes
  • DC Wedding Photographer on Goldilocks and the three flashes
  • Wedding Photographer in DC on The 16-Bit Fallacy: Why More Isn’t Always Better in Medium Format Cameras
  • JimK on Fujifilm GFX 100S II precision
  • Renjie Zhu on Fujifilm GFX 100S II precision
  • JimK on Fuji 20-35/4 landscape field curvature at 23mm vs 23/4 GF
  • Ivo de Man on Fuji 20-35/4 landscape field curvature at 23mm vs 23/4 GF
  • JimK on Fuji 20-35/4 landscape field curvature at 23mm vs 23/4 GF
  • JimK on Fuji 20-35/4 landscape field curvature at 23mm vs 23/4 GF

Archives

Copyright © 2025 · Daily Dish Pro On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Unless otherwise noted, all images copyright Jim Kasson.