Received my Batis 135 Friday. While it's taken some nice, crisp images, It appears that there are FAR more shots with poor IQ, than good - particularly as compared with other lenses I own.
One thing I'm seeing is a softness, light haze or glow that almost looks like internal reflections. Sometimes the lens seems to be very sharp, and other times not even remotely sharp.
Excepting the photographer's choices, below are a few examples of what I'm seeing.
Do I have a dud?
In the tree samples below, the focus point was off center, on the lower right side of the tree on the left. Two shots with the Batis, and a comparison shot with the Sigma 135 Art - at max aperture.
The sun was in and out of the clouds yesterday. When it peeked out strongly, the shutter speed might jump to, and over, 1000, so I turned EFCS off at one point, though I don't think any of the Batis tree shots below were at very high shutter speeds, FWIW.
You can see the glowy characteristic on the Batis shots, that is clearly lacking in the Sigma.
In the last one of the building, the odd aberrations around the sides of brick structure are very obvious - and unexpected.
Hood was used on both lenses.
Sep 10, 2017 at 09:09 AM
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