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Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8, part 2

January 15, 2016 JimK 1 Comment

This is a continuation of the Loxia review that starts here.

I took a walk this morning with my new lens on the a7RII.

Here’s a distortion test, first with Lightroom’s lens corrections turned off:

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There’s just a little mustache distortion.

With lens correction on:

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The distortion pretty much goes away.

Here’s an image with the lens stopped all the way down to f/22. I was trying for sun stars:

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Not a good lens for sun stars.

Then I opened it up all the way to try to get some flare and ghosting:

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That’s pretty darned impressive.

How does it draw in general? A lot like the Zeiss 21/2.8 Distagon ZF.2, and that’s a compliment.

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Here’s a 300% look at the upper right corner with no lens corrections:

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And with lens corrections on, but CA removal off:

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It looks like Lr is correcting for corner falloff, and not much else (except distortion, as we saw above). The LaCA is minimal.

I like this lens a lot.

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← Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8, part 1 Some more color images of the hills across the way →

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  1. rvh says

    February 26, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    You must have done something very wrong with your sun star shot – maybe you included too much sun. The fabulous sun stars are the icing on the cake with this remarkable lens. They work great for street lights etc at night too.

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