Good idea about the naming Cars. I assumed I didn\'t need to because for anyone reading the thread it\'s overwhelmingly obvious what two lenses are being compared. Sorry for the mix-up tho.
Wiseguy,
this is meant friendly but you can just bite me! I\'ve read literally hundreds of white papers (perhaps thousands of pages?) on optical systems and testing methods. I\'ve tested hundreds of lenses personally. There\'s nothing amateurish nor point and shoot about the tests conducted here. They\'re meant to be semi-scientific real world comparisons between two lenses of major repute. Nothing more than that. This site is full of tests both more and less \"scientific\" (tho usually less!) than this one. I wouldn\'t call any of them amateurish and neither should you. I don\'t think I\'ve even seen one I would refer to as \"point and shoot testing\". There\'s probably a lot I still don\'t know or have the equipment for, but I certainly know enough to compare two lenses - and then some. Take from these tests what you will. They\'re for you and the other readers here, after all.
Steve,
I was just writing another of my justification shrugged shoulders replies when I decided to find my data, prove my point, and put an end to all this nonsense:
Whooops! I\'m a nit-wit! I relocated all my data from that day and it was NOT the ZF that tested worse. OK, this is embarrassing! It was the C/Y Planar 100mm F2.0 Damn, I hate it when that happens! I did test (only) one ZF/100/2.0 but the two C/Y-100/2.0\'s are the ones I was comparing with. The other was a C/Y Sonar 100. From looking at my worksheets I didn\'t compare the ZF very closely at all because it was $2,100 and the C/Y MP100/2.8 was less than half that. It doesn\'t diminish anything in these tests of course, but I will go back and change any posts with tests in them to reflect the correct lenses mentioned/compared/tested. Wow, humble apologies all around. Except to wiseguy... you can still bit me! And I mean that in the most friendly way.
Geesh!
Mar 09, 2012 at 04:50 PM
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I\'ve read literally hundreds of white papers (perhaps thousands of pages?) on optical systems and testing methods. I\'ve tested hundreds of lenses personally. There\'s nothing amateurish nor point and shoot about the tests conducted here. They\'re meant to be semi-scientific real world comparisons between two lenses of major repute. Nothing more than that. This site is full of tests both more and less \"scientific\" (tho usually less!) than this one. I wouldn\'t call any of them amateurish and neither should you. I don\'t think I\'ve even seen one I would refer to as \"point and shoot testing\". There\'s probably a lot I still don\'t know or have the equipment for, but I certainly know enough to compare two lenses - and then some. Take from these tests what you will. They\'re for you and the other readers here, after all.