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After completing this first shoot out ( https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1402791 ) to find which 85s I liked best, I found the N85 and Mino 85 Limited were my favorite, with a nod the Leica R 80. Since then, I got my hands on the Milvus 85, Samyang 85, CY 100, GM 85 and Batis 85. I also threw in my old Minolta 58 1.2 I often use for portraits. I really don’t think I’ll do another shoot out like this, but I thought the FM community might enjoy the results. As always, please feel free to chime in, post examples, disagree (but not too harshly!) or educate on some of the specifics. I am interested in 85s as portraits lenses, so performance stopped down and at longer distances isn’t something I took the time to test here. I am principally interested in rendering—color, contrast, focus transition, fringing, clarity and highlight and shadow detail. This isn’t a traditional tests, and it wasn’t intended to be but maybe the more astute members here can better answer some more technical aspects. Exposure and white balance have all been equalized. Processing is minimal—lens profiles have been turned off, and there have been minimal contrast, color or exposure adjustments. These adjustments has been equally applied. If it wasn’t relevant, I didn’t post process (like WB the vingetting). All photos were taken on the A7rII except for the sharpness tests and color tests, these were performed on the a7II.
It’s curious how these tests translate into real word shooting--I find the tests are interesting and informative, but I don’t feel they closely correlate to real world images, which is whyI have somewhat lost interests in testing after this round. And it’s a fine line—the renderings are quite different, but when in the field, so much of the lens’ print is from the lighting, how much/well it takes processing, composition, etc. The Rokkor 58 1.2 doesn’t test well for instance, but I love my images from the Mino 58. The Batis is the opposite. The N 85 is the technically least optically competent Zeiss tested here, but it’s easily my favorite. But these tests do give indications on what to expect. Beyond the technical aspects, this stuff is subjective. And also, modern optics are better corrected in terms of color fringing and off central sharpness, and we are getting to a new generation and style or photos. All the lenses have their personalities, and I love these lenses for different reasons. I’ve done a little write up on each lens, and at the end, I’ll include a couple photos that I feel illustrate the lens’ personality in the field. I realize the information here is qualitative and quantitative, so there’s room for dialogue 
As always, thanks to the FM community for being an invaluable source of inspiration and information.
Edited on May 19, 2016 at 11:17 PM · View previous versions
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It's does very well though for bokeh
