Jim Schemel wrote:
John,
#2 is very nice.How do you like the 35N. I have it and i think it is a very nice lens but i just do not get a lot of opportunities to use it a lot.Shortly i will be heading to NYC and will have more of an opp to use it.
-Jim
Thanks Jim. I had a 35mm (C) lens from about the mid 80\'s until about the mid 90\'s and sold it when I went from an M645 to an RZII kit. At the time I was never impressed by it\'s wide open performance but was always very happy with it stopped down. This new 35mm that I\'ve aquired recently is the N (apparently the same optics as the non \'N\' version) and it does seem quite sharp wide open (but falls off a bit at the edges) but I can\'t say that I\'ve really done enough with it to judge. I am very happy with the sharpness of the couple of images I posted, both shot at F4, but it does get sharper at F8 and it is certainly sharp there across the frame. I\'m not sure I can compare it with my Leica R 35/1.4 stopped down but then I can\'t shift or tilt on the Leica so the Mamiya 35/3.5 N wins out anyway! For me the benefits of tilt/shift outweigh minor differences in sharpness but sharpness is only one quality.
Here\'s an unsharpened 100% crop from about the centre of the first image (35/3.5N at f4). I\'m sure it would have been a little sharper at iso100 but I think it\'s fine.
55/2.8 N at F2.8 with some tilt. The Bokeh from the 55/2.8 N may be a bit harsh close up and wide open. An identical image shot at f8 is quite smooth in comparison.
JJ
Jul 11, 2010 at 06:56 AM
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