Thanks for the info! Will read your link. The far corners are not that important to me, I usually shoot a little wide if possible which leaves me some room to crop extreme corners if sharpness there is critical (which is not that often anyway). I\'m more interested in the rendering/color/bokeh.
I already have a QBM Distagon 35/2.8, a Minolta MC 35/1.8 and a Schneider Retina Curtagon 35/2.8 but the concave FD 35/2 especially seems to have a big following from what I read online.
The FD 24/2 is another one that\'s supposed to be very good an I am keeping an eye out for that too. I have an FDn 24/2.8 which I found a bit disappointing especially compared to the FDn 20/2.8 and 28/2 which are both excellent on the a7 (may be just my copy of the 24/2.8 though since most people seem to think the 20/2.8 and 24/2.8 are very close in quality).
This one might give you an idea of the bokeh of the 35 F/2. I was walking back along the beach dicing with the waves that were coming in onto the only hard sand that offered easy walking - I set it on F/2.8 from memory, set the focus at about 3 m, and took a couple to explore the effect. I find it hard to escape the impression that their is something funny going on here with reverse curvature of the field of sharp focus - look at the waves on the far left and the houses top right, both of which seem in sharper focus than the centre distance.
WRT the 24, both it and the 20 are also tested at the site I put the link in for, and the corners don\'t come in all that well for either - I have the 20, and I use it only because I don\'t have an alternative. I\'m hopeful that Mr Zeiss will expand the Loxia or Batis lines in that direction. John
Thanks for the info! Will read your link. The far corners are not that important to me, I usually shoot a little wide if possible which leaves me some room to crop extreme corners if sharpness there is critical (which is not that often anyway). I\'m more interested in the rendering/color/bokeh.
I already have a QBM Distagon 35/2.8, a Minolta MC 35/1.8 and a Schneider Retina Curtagon 35/2.8 but the concave FD 35/2 especially seems to have a big following from what I read online.
The FD 24/2 is another one that\'s supposed to be very good an I am keeping an eye out for that too. I have an FDn 24/2.8 which I found a bit disappointing especially compared to the FDn 20/2.8 and 28/2 which are both excellent on the a7 (may be just my copy of the 24/2.8 though since most people seem to think the 20/2.8 and 24/2.8 are very close in quality).
This one might give you an idea of the bokeh of the 35 F/2. I was walking back along the beach dicing with the waves that were coming in onto the only hard sand that offered easy walking - I set it on F/2.8 from memory, set the focus at about 3 m, and took a couple to explore the effect. WRT the 24, both it and the 20 are also tested at the site I put the link in for, and the corners don\'t come in all that well - I have the 20, and I use it only because I don\'t have an alternative. Hopefully Mr Zeiss will expand the Loxia or Batis lines in that direction. John
Jun 03, 2015 at 03:58 PM
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