Ok, so, in the discussion about slow primes, I remarked on a few posts, which then kind of started a sidetrack. I was quite curious about how different the renderings of some good alt glass and my best Canon lenses would really play out. So, I set up this little battle between 6 lenses. The lenses are all shot at f/4, and are all somwhat similar in focal length. The last two images, I had to do a little extra processing for white balance and such, which is why they look a little different (and why they show more noise), but it was necessary to get a closer comparison. (I will explain in detail after a few responses have taken place).
I will also say up front that I LOVE all 6 of these lenses, for different reasons, but all are excellent lenses and all but one of these gets very regular use on my camera.
Exposure is identical, all shot in manual mode, all focused on the Ferrari symbol on the car. Except for the WB change on the last two, the images were processed directly out of lightroom at defaultsThe green car is about halfway back to the blurred decanter, and the highlights in the back are about 25 feet behind.
I\'m wondering if the Alt crowd can rank the lenses in the order of their preference in the following categories:
Best overall rendition
Best microcontrast
Best color
Best bokeh
Best resolution
Quite curious to see the results. What follows are reduced frames of the overall scene, followed by 100% crops of the focus point and of the top of the decanter to see bokeh rendition.
Ok, so, in the discussion about slow primes, I remarked on a few posts, which then kind of started a sidetrack. I was quite curious about how different the renderings of some good alt glass and my best Canon lenses would really play out. So, I set up this little battle between 6 lenses. The lenses are all shot at f/4, and are all somwhat similar in focal length. The last two images, I had to do a little extra processing for white balance and such, which is why they look a little different (and why they show more noise), but it was necessary to get a closer comparison. (I will explain in detail after a few responses have taken place).
Exposure is identical, all shot in manual mode, all focused on the Ferrari symbol on the car. Except for the WB change on the last two, the images were processed directly out of lightroom at defaultsThe green car is about halfway back to the blurred decanter, and the highlights in the back are about 25 feet behind.
I\'m wondering if the Alt crowd can rank the lenses in the order of their preference in the following categories:
Best overall rendition
Best microcontrast
Best color
Best bokeh
Best resolution
Quite curious to see the results. What follows are reduced frames of the overall scene, followed by 100% crops of the focus point and of the top of the decanter to see bokeh rendition.
Lens #1:
Lens #2:
Lens #3:
Lens #4:
Lens #5:
Lens #6:
100% Crops:
Feb 27, 2010 at 09:08 PM
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