joekraft wrote:
I don\'t mean to ask you to prove a negative, but... I see a lot of head/head and shoulders portraits on flickr that look like they are in the same league as an 85 1.2. It looks to be exactly what I would want. Do you have any at close range that show how poorly the 85 performs in that context, such that you don\'t even use it? I think it would be very informative to a lot of folks watching this thread. Or in other words - if this is as bad as it sounds for what I want it for, help save me some money
All this is pretty well documented on Lloyd ZF-lenses paid articles, so it feels really stupid to see all the effort to do the same/similar tests by myself when I see in field same happening. I\'m printing next time at Wednesday (I\'ll try to not print every day since turning printer on consumes ink) and I\'ll print some test chart, if I have time to prepare that, then later this week I could take some shots to clarify what this focus shift means in practice since this seems to be so big mystery even all fast lenses suffer a little from it.
85ZE does perform pretty well in close range when closed down to f/2-2.8 but personally I cannot tolerate any focus errors. In order to focus portrait to surface of eye (not tip eyelashes, nose or some other place but to the eye itself) I would need to focus with DOF button pressed and for that I run out of hands.
