Hello All,
I recently bit the bullet and upgraded from *istDL2 to K5ii...and a few days ago I decided it was high time I buy a lens too
I own the FA501.4, but sometimes I find the field of view too "restrictive" if this makes sense. When I am outside it's not a problem, I just take a few steps back, but indoors it's a problem.
Having heard about the limited lenses, I decided to buy the 35mm 2.8 macro (the newer one with the red ring). Just out of mere curiosity I wanted to see how it compares against two other lenses I own: the Tamron 18-250, and the kit lens (18-55, bought together with the DL2).
So today I went out around London and took some shots,I have included a few crops below...
Original (scaled down):
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100% crops
Tamron on the left, Ltd in the middle, Kit lens on the right:
I have to say, I am very impressed with the sharpness of the 35mm 2.8macro, as others have noted. From 4.0 to 6.7 it seems to be the sharpest. When viewing photos at 100%, it makes me wonder what the heck I have been doing all these years shooting with the Tamron,
To be fair the Tamron is a handy lens when travelling...
Wide open, however, I seem to be getting mixed results, it varies from not ok to just ok
Here are crops from 2.8 to 4.5 for the Ltd one:
I suspect shooting landscapes at 2.8 is not particularly clever, but it seems to be kind of similar with more close up photos. Sometimes, the photo is just blurry, other times, it seems much better. I noticed *kind of* a similar thing with my FA50 when shooting at 1.4 or 1.7, but the blurriness from the FA seems to be more pleasant than the Ltd when shooting wide open. That's just my subjective view anyway
Overall, I am pleased and happy with this lens, I can see it becoming my walk around lens. Not sure what to make of the wide open fuzziness, I guess, if I need to shoot at 2.8, I will just have to take some extra shots!
Thanks for reading my post