New Member Registered: January, 2011 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9 9 users found this helpful | Review Date: October 31, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $5,000.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Clarity, sharpness | Cons: | None | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 9
Value: 9
Camera Used: 645D
| | I was lucky enough to be able to buy this lens recently and haven't had the opportunity to use it extensively yet, but what I have seen so far of the results are spectacular.
It produces the sharpest, clearest image straight out of the camera, that I have ever seen.
It is bulky, a bit heavy and rather expensive, but then, what would you expect from a lens of this calibre, so I can't say any of these things are negatives.
Anyway, I'll let an image prove the point for me.
I have shown the full frame, then 100% enlargements of the areas shown with a red rectangle in the full frame, in the top right corner, centre and centre left. All the small crops are original, unsharpened, straight out of the Raw file. I sharpened the full frame image a little, to give a better idea of its normal appearance, as of course, I had to downsize it radically to fit this space and it gained some softness in the process. | |
Inactive Account Registered: January, 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 4 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: April 15, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $6,000.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | sharpness, contrast, colours | Cons: | vignetting with external 100mm-filters | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 8
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 9
Value: 9
Camera Used: 645D
| | a very nice lens, really beautiful colours, contrast and superb sharpness. In corners (8% of width or 5cm of 61,5 cm) it is getting soft. I think this is OK for such a wide angle but I know lenses which are better in corners.
As normal with wide-angles, there is distorsion. Even CA is good, too. But you see some, if 100% viewed;especially in high-contrast areas.
I built a lee-100mm-filter-holder and tested the lens with a nd 1.2 soft filter very close to hood but I had no chance to take pictures without vignetting in corners. If you get the filter close to lense you can minimize them. But only one filter is working quite good. More than one you have strong vignetting.
Everything is off superb quality, as expected regarding price...
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