Last week I found a bargain price Oly Zuiko 24mm f/2.8 (newer multicoated version) and decided to buy it. I tested it and found out that this lens is absolutely a gem. It is very small and light, so it is easy to get steady shots at lower shutter speeds. The lens is easy to manually focus. Images that this little gem makes are just beautiful. The lens is very sharp at center wide open, but a little bit soft in the corners. At f/5.6 the lens is super sharp accross the whole frame. The only negative aspect of this lens is that it produces somewhat cooler colors on my Canon 1D MK2 (I will test it on Nikon D700 when I get an adapter and find some time), but this is easily fixed in PP.
Below are some images that I took with the lens (full images and full size crops), so you can judge the performance of the lens. All the images were taken in Raw format and converted to JPEG files using Canon DPP software. Since Canon 1D MK2 processor outputs soft raw files, the images were sharpened (+5), saturated (+4), and color profile was set to \"faithful\"). White balance was adjusted to produce warmer images (thats my preference). The 1st and 2nd images were taken at f/2.8 and f/4, respectevely. The rest of the images were shot at f/8 or f/11.
Cheers,
Dan
Nov 06, 2011 at 04:36 PM
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