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For many months now I have regularly frequented a lens rating website called
Lenscore.org. Specifically, I have spent countless hours studying their Zeiss lens ratings.
Having owned and used all but one of the Zeiss classic lenses and a few of the Zeiss Milvus lenses, I've developed some strong personal feelings about many Zeiss lenses.
While for the most part, I find the Lenscore.org ratings to be fair and accurate; they sometimes really miss the mark with their scores. This is especially true when it comes to their scores on a lens' bokeh.
For example, a Zeiss lens with exceptional bokeh is the 35mm f/1.4 "Classic" lens. Not only is that my opinion, but one of the best lens testers in the USA (Roger Cicala of
LensRentals.com) says "T
he bokeh is like butter, as nice as anything I’ve shot with and definitely better (in my opinion) than the Canon or Nikon 35 f/1.4s." . Lenscore.org rates the bokeh of the Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens a lowly 22 out of 30 Zeiss lenses they evaluated.
Bokeh is not easy to evaluate and rate. Maybe someone needs to come up with a standardized lens bokeh measuring protocol that, once and for all, brings uniformity to this here-to-for subjective lens characteristic.
Without an objective way to evaluate and test lens characteristics, maybe a lens reviewer (like Lenscore.org) should refrain from commenting at all on that particular lens characteristic. Because making evaluations that are highly subjective will bring into question the validity of their other evaluations on the many other lenses characteristics.
Last edited by Fenwoodian; 08-02-2017 at 04:52 PM.