Got out briefly, mostly just to wander a bit and play around with the new lens. Paired with an a7R3:
I also wanted to get a feel for how it handles in the range between wide open and ~f/5.6. The vignetting wide open at f/2.0 is very noticable and distracting to me, but even just one stop down at f/2.8 it cleans up nicely. (Apertures are noted at the bottom of each image):
Amazing lens. I got mine last week and test shots look great. Anxious to get out and shoot, once I have fewer home repair tasks to tend to. Lovely bokeh, stellar sharpness. I was not sure about the haptics of the barrel, from looking at images of the lens, but the hand feel is actually great, and the rotation is like butter.
Jorge Torralba wrote:
Get the M mount if you already hav an M and the use the adapter. dumb adapter, focus confirmation adatper or af adapter. choices are awesome and you get two for 1 lens
Except the TZM-02 Autofocus Adapter.
From my experience, dumb or ttartisan 6-bit adapter doesn't give the same manual focus experience/feeling as the native Z mount.
You’re gonna have worse corners by a significant margin. Best to go native with an APO or you are totally missing the point.
Jorge Torralba wrote:
Get the M mount if you already hav an M and the use the adapter. dumb adapter, focus confirmation adatper or af adapter. choices are awesome and you get two for 1 lens
Usually, there are IQ issues adapting M lenses, due to sensor stack differences, and the wider the lens, the worse the issues. I would only adapt an M lens if you also have an M body to mount it on. Especially an APO lens, which is all about edge to edge image quality.
You will probably be able to adapt the 28mm f2 APO from E to Z without a noticeable IQ impact, but I have not seen anyone try this exact combo yet.
For those that wear glasses while shooting, can you see the 28mm frame lines with viewfinders greater than 0.58x, or are you using Visoflex/external optical viewfinders?
Mine just arrived on Thursday. Went out this morning to test how it performs in IR on an M11M. Good news for any IR shooters, no hotspots at any aperture! I tested it with a 720nm cutoff filter and 780nm cutoff filter. Shot aperture series with both going from f/2 to f/16. Here are a few examples at small apertures:
