Re: Pre-order: Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 APO ($1,999)
virtualrain wrote:
Price aside, it's a strange product mix of trade-offs. I may be wrong but most people shooting a 135 are likely shooting people and value subject isolation and back ground obliteration over corner sharpness and CA correction. To put optical performance across the frame ahead of subject isolation (max aperture) is a bizarre decision in my opinion.
Lateral CA is very important to portrait photographers (unless you want your "Bokeh balls" to have a thick green outline...) Sharpness to the corners is not so important for portraits, but will be for other types of photography, and I imagine it all goes hand in hand with being well corrected for colour etc.
ISO1600 wrote:
The Canon 135L is and always has been an absolutely phenomenal lens, and can be had for under $700 these days.
The Canon 135L is a good lens, and fantastic value at the current prices. But I wouldn't say it's phenominal - more recent lenses like the 135/2 APO or Samyang 135 show how much more contrast and sharpness is possible across the frame at f/2.0, and it's not hard to find examples of axial colour from the Canon.
Luvwine wrote:
I found some bokeh examples I did not love here:
It's possible to find bad bokeh samples from any lens. The image content has a large influence on the look of the Bokeh - here's an image from the 135L with bad bokeh due to the presence of thin tree branches:
Apr 06, 2017 at 05:57 AM
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