Samuli Vahonen Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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I'm trying to reduce the size of equipment, due to which I have been trying to find smaller alternative for Carl Zeiss APO-Sonnar T* 2/135 ZE. I most likely end up to getting Leica-M 135APO, but wanted to test is f/3.5 too slow for me. I decided to test this with Olympus lens; it's pretty light weight and small size. This was most likely first time I ever shoot with this lens outdoors. I got this lens from 2 lens deal and the other lens was what I wanted
For such small and cheap lens it gives pretty nice results. On focus plane it needs to be closed down to f/8 to get short edges sharp and f/11 to get corners usable (they seem not to get really sharp). Things on focus plane are OK, quite little aberrations and contrast is OKish. Contrast and colors are quite muted if one is used to Zeiss drawing style.
The boke has very strong tendency to add magenta in front of focus plane and green behind focus plane - I tried to remove it in post processing, but as this is on boke, it can't be really removed (the Chromatic Aberration removal tools perform very well on focus plane). Otherwise boke is quite good after closing lens to f/5.6 - wide open the boke highlights tend to generate very sharp edges.
Boke color behaviour, weakish contrast and lacking performance before f/5.6-8 makes this lens not suitable for my use, as my photos usually contain boke. But for people shooting landscapes etc. where boke color errors don't matter, this is very good alternative for 135mm focal length, size is very nice and usually these cost next to nothing.
Olympus OM E.Zuiko 1:3.5 f=135mm @ f/5.6, HDR(1/60s,1/250s,1000s), A7R @ ISO 125
Olympus OM E.Zuiko 1:3.5 f=135mm @ f/5.6, HDR(1/30s,1/125s,1/500s), A7R @ ISO 125
Olympus OM E.Zuiko 1:3.5 f=135mm @ f/5.6, 1/80s, A7R @ ISO 125
Olympus OM E.Zuiko 1:3.5 f=135mm @ f/5.6, HDR(1/125s,1/500s,1/2000s), A7R @ ISO 125
Olympus OM E.Zuiko 1:3.5 f=135mm @ f/8.0, 1/200s, A7R @ ISO 160
Samuli
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