Test image with NEX 5N, ZF 25/2.8 @ 2.8 - photo of my favorite couch ornament . I am happy w/ the lens sharpness, but I hoped for more vignette at 2.8 actually. The reviews really let me down there.
The 24 seems to me to be very different from the manual focus lenses I am used to on the 5N. I feel like I am really having to learn how to use it. I've found myself using it in manual focus mode rather often just because I am used to working that way, even though the lens is focus by wire. I need to practice the AF system so that I get better using it. I like the sharpness, overall rendering and bokeh. But I really need to use it a lot more so that i feel comfortable with it.
I'm realizing more and more that what I want/need for a day-to-day walk around kit is a 35mm equivalent and a 85mm equivalent. I get close enough to a sharp or fast (fast wide open, sharp stopped down) 85mm with my 50/1.2 nikkor and my 58/1.2 rokkor.
My big problem is the 24mm (35mm equivalent), my nikkor 24/2 is soft/dreamy in the center wide open and not really, really sharp stopped down. RF-24s will be somehow smeary/colorshifty at 24mm as I understand it?
So, are there any fast 24s that might work? 24mm canon fd? The new zeiss 24/1.8 obviously.. konica 24?
ulrikft2 wrote:
I'm realizing more and more that what I want/need for a day-to-day walk around kit is a 35mm equivalent and a 85mm equivalent. I get close enough to a sharp or fast (fast wide open, sharp stopped down) 85mm with my 50/1.2 nikkor and my 58/1.2 rokkor.
My big problem is the 24mm (35mm equivalent), my nikkor 24/2 is soft/dreamy in the center wide open and not really, really sharp stopped down. RF-24s will be somehow smeary/colorshifty at 24mm as I understand it?
So, are there any fast 24s that might work? 24mm canon fd? The new zeiss 24/1.8 obviously.. konica 24? ...Show more →
Here are a couple from the Canon FD (1.4)
Glow and not the best bokeh WO but sharpens up nicely when stopped down with CA correction. Damn heavy! ,,,, not sure that it will stay in my bag....
Thanks for the feedback! I suspect I might end up with the 24/1.8 from sony/zeiss, I do prefer MF though, so maybe I should wait for cosina? see if they manage to make a 25/0.95 or 25/1.4 for e-mount.
Is the shot heavily cropped?
. I am happy w/ the lens sharpness, but I hoped for more vignette at 2.8 actually. The reviews really let me down there. 
