Phillip Reeve wrote: keepcoding wrote:
Seeing quite significant CA as shown in the crop below (from phillipreeve.net) makes me even more hesitant. Maybe I should get the 65mm instead (which is currently cheaper), but I am pretty sure it will stay at home most of the time due to the size and weight. There is no such thing as a perfect lens... always compromizes.
I wouldn't call it quite significant. This is a 100% crop at f/2 in a worst case scenario and I am pretty sure that no "normal" person would notice it. I don't have a 2/65 APO for comparison but I don't think it would be 100% clean either.
With lenses like the Voigtlander 2/50 I just have to appreciate the level of perfection achieved but honestly the level of sharpness and correction it reaches hardly ever translate into better pictures for me. Lenses like the 1.2/40 or 1.2/50 are already well enough corrected for my uses so it solves issues I don't have.
Well for a crop from a 24 megapixel sensor, it is significant. I've had many non-APO lenses that performed better.
For product photography for instance, the sample you showed is a pretty common scenario, not a provoked one.
And I am not "normal" either when I spend > 1k on a manual lens
Could you compare the LoCA of your 50/1.2 stopped down to f2 with the APO Lanthar?
