The 85mm F2.8 is far better than the Nikon equivalents in sharpness, color, bokeh, CA, and most of all size, tiny lens. A lot of people think it\'s an adapted Sonnar 90mm F2.8
I\'ve actually tried all 4 lenses, the Canon and Nikons are almost unusable wide open because of CA.
I\'ve shot the Canon and Nikon 1.8s. Loved the Canon, didn\'t really like the Nikon. Most of my wide-open shots aren\'t in super-high contrast situations...for instance, I have a plan of using 85mm during event shooting (retirements of military), and I need all the speed I can get.
Plus for portraits, I prefer the creamy look of f2 or faster, especially if I\'m using a crop camera.
The other problem comes from using SAM motors - This doesn\'t allow the A77 to operate like I like, which is to use AF-S, then depress the AF/MF button to instantly enter MF with peaking enabled. On the SAM lenses, I have to switch the lens switch to MF for this to happen with peaking -- Pressing AF/MF in fact does go into manual focus, but does not enable peaking. I\'m unsure how this happens on screw-drive like the ZA 85.
Mar 20, 2012 at 09:01 PM
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