Sorry, it should read CHOOSE! This Thanksgiving day was cloudy and cold in Southern California, so I decide to shot flowers using my K5 and some of my best lenses. This was a good opportunity to find out (without all those technical analysis) what lens produced the best shots. I decided to use three nice 135mm lenses: The Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm f3.5, the Jupiter 37A 135/3.5 and the Tair 11A 138/2.8, I threw three more lenses just to check, among those one of the best: the SMC Takumar 85mm f1.9. Please look at the photos and compare them, I appreciate if you comment on which photo is sharpest, has best colors, etc., bottom line, which photo you like the best and why. I shot with the lens wide open, intermediate, and close (to the minimum workable aperture without causing difraction). I used a tripod and shot remotely using the 3 sec delay to allow for the mirror up vibration to stop. Any comments are welcome. Here are the photos:
Last edited by Pepe Guitarra; 11-25-2011 at 11:27 PM.