jhinkey wrote:
navmannz wrote
Here's a last one from my recent volcanoes trip, along with one of a happy photographer's assistant, both with the new CV Ultron 35 F/1.7 Great images! What's your opinion of the 35/1.7?
Thanks, John. I love it for its size and compactness, which is important for me, given where I take it - its definitely a much sharper and better corrected lens than the FDn 35/2 I'd used previously, very good central sharpness wide open for closer subjects, with nice oof, and good for landscape when stopped down to F/8, provided that you manage the curvature, which gives soft corners if infinity focused - sorting out hyperfocal distances really helped, so that now I largely prefocus and shoot away, confident that I'll have good performance. I also looked at the newer Zeiss offerings in this focal length, but view the Loxia as expensive, the Distagon as both heavy and expensive, and the Sonnar not all that good a performer in the corners. Overall, I'm very happy with it. It gave some purple fringing on the A7R but not on the RII
John