Just got a 35 1.4 gm to go along with my A7iii and I’m not sure if I got a bad copy or what. Love the lens and its sharpness however I’ve noticed some of my photos aren’t coming out as sharp as I’d like them to be. This is especially apparent at 1.4. I’m not sure if its me or the camera so I decided to do a test that I found online. I set these five batteries up in a diagonal with a battery space size space in between each one of them. I set spot focused (small) on the middle battery with the camera as close to parallel with it as possible, used my phone to trigger my shutter, and used AF-S. I can tell that it isn’t grossly back or front focused but is it correctly focused on the middle battery? It almost looks a little soft to me, but I could be wrong. Let me know what you think. I also have taken some flower photos and there seems to be issues with them as well. I am able to get some really sharp photos with this lens, but a lot are coming out pretty meh.
Swimming_trouble_718 wrote:
Just got a 35 1.4 gm to go along with my A7iii and I’m not sure if I got a bad copy or what.
These are all near macro distance shots. If that is what you primarily want, you may have the wrong lens. This is how to properly test for a bad copy: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1534737/0
And you posted this in the image thread. You probably should start a new thread instead, where you can discuss your copy, shooting near MFD or whatever else is on your mind:-)
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