This is definitely not a real world test, or an other world test, or even a test. Just an observation. Click the links for larger. Or click for lager, but you\'ll have to get your own. First the 100% crops:
The NEX files were down-rez\'d appropriately. Native res or resized, I can still see the differences and not always when pixel peeping.
One plus, when shooting mountains, the NEX paints picturesque snow!
I made the NEX photographs not quite two weeks apart from the GXR images. It was a fantastically clear day on Nov 30, somewhat less so with atmospheric haze earlier this week when out for a walk with the GXR. The mountain top is about 11km away, the Cargill terminal is not quite 2km away.
I\'m still not blown away by the ZM 25 but maybe I would be on a full frame camera, and I bought it partly mindful of that possible eventuality. The 35 I quite enjoy, period. Both do better on the GXR I find, sometimes markedly so, than on the NEX, but I would say that the differences are more apparent when going to infinity. That made me wonder if my Hawk adapter wasn\'t allowing the lens to reach infinity properly, but since then I\'ve confirmed the same differences favoring the GXR are still there even when shooting brick school walls at 10 paces, armed with a tripod and such.
This is definitely not a real world test, or an other world test, or even a test. Just an observation. Click the links for larger. Or click for lager, but you\'ll have to get your own. First the 100% crops:
The NEX files were down-rez\'d appropriately. Native res or resized, I can still see the differences and not always when pixel peeping.
One plus, when shooting mountains, the NEX paints picturesque snow!
I made the NEX photographs not quite two weeks apart from the GXR images. It was a fantastically clear day on Nov 30, somewhat less so with atmospheric haze earlier this week when out for a walk with the GXR. The mountain top is about 11km away, the Cargill terminal is not quite 2km away.
I\'m still not blown away by the ZM 25 but maybe I would be on a full frame camera, and I bought it partly mindful of that possible eventuality. The 35 I quite enjoy, period. Both do better on the GXR I find, sometimes markedly so, than on the NEX, but I would say that the differences are more apparent when going to infinity. That made me wonder if my Hawk adapter wasn\'t allowing the lens to reach infinity properly, but since then I\'ve confirmed the same differences favoring the GXR are still there even when shooting brick school walls at 10 paces, armed with a tripod and such.
This is definitely not a real world test, or an other world test, or even a test. Just an observation. Click the links for larger. Or click for lager, but you\'ll have to get your own. First the 100% crops:
The NEX files were down-rez\'d appropriately. Native res or resized, I can still see the differences and not always when pixel peeping.
I made the NEX photographs not quite two weeks apart from the GXR images. It was a fantastically clear day on Nov 30, somewhat less so with atmospheric haze earlier this week when out for a walk with the GXR.
I\'m still not blown away by the ZM 25 but maybe I would be on a full frame camera, and I bought it partly mindful of that possible eventuality. The 35 I quite enjoy, period. Both do better on the GXR I find, sometimes markedly so, than on the NEX, but I would say that the differences are more apparent when going to infinity. That made me wonder if my Hawk adapter wasn\'t allowing the lens to reach infinity properly, but since then I\'ve confirmed the same differences favoring the GXR are still there even when shooting brick school walls at 10 paces, armed with a tripod and such.
Dec 16, 2011 at 06:24 PM
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