philber wrote:
Regarding the 16mm Sony NEX lens, I tried two and the shots were so bad, even at f:5.6, that I traded it in for the kit zoom. Pics to follow.
lovely shots, i especially like the close up into the sun shot.
in my experience with the 16mm lens, f/5.6 is not stopped down enough to get acceptable sharpness at the edges of the frame. though as i understand it, even the center wasn\'t sharp in your two copies? my copy is quite sharp in the center at f/5.6, actually f/5.6 is the aperture where it is sharpest in the center. obviously with such a budget lens there is quite a bit of sample variation. on mine the edges don\'t become acceptable until f/8 and the extreme corners never become acceptable. i find f/11 to be decent enough for most applications, though certainly not anything to get excited about. i would definitely prefer my rokkor MD 24mm f/2.8 on FF, but my only FF camera is film (someday someone will make a FF dslr that satisfies my needs i hope). anyway back to the 16mm - here are a few samples to illustrate performance. it seems i only use it at night.
f/9:
center crop
corner crop
some bokeh shots. i\'m not really a fan of this lens\'s bokeh - funny things seem to happen in the corners even in the blur. the fog in these shots seems to help it out a bit.
f/2.8:
f/8:
and the same basic shot but in focus:
anyway, i\'m not particularly happy with the lens, but for the price it does well enough for landscape. there doesn\'t really seem to be anything else in that focal length that doesn\'t have it\'s own problems either. personally i\'m not too concerned because it\'s not really my favorite focal length, i rarely shoot wider than 28mm.
philber wrote:
Regarding the 16mm Sony NEX lens, I tried two and the shots were so bad, even at f:5.6, that I traded it in for the kit zoom. Pics to follow.
lovely shots, i especially like the close up into the sun shot.
in my experience with the 16mm lens f/5.6 is not stopped down enough to get acceptable sharpness at the edges of the frame. though as i understand it, even the center wasn\'t sharp in your two copies? my copy is quite sharp in the center at f/5.6, actually f/5.6 is the aperture where it is sharpest in the center. obviously with such a budget lens there is quite a bit of sample variation. on mine the edges don\'t become acceptable until f/8 and the extreme corners never become acceptable. i find f/11 to be decent enough for most applications, though certainly not anything to get excited about. i would definitely prefer my rokkor MD 24mm f/2.8 on FF, but my only FF camera is film (someday someone will make a FF dslr that satisfies my needs i hope). anyway back to the 16mm - here are a few samples to illustrate performance. it seems i only use it at night.
center crop
corner crop
some bokeh shots. i\'m not really a fan of this lens\'s bokeh - funny things seem to happen in the corners even in the blur. the fog in these shots seems to help it out a bit.
f/2.8:
f/8:
and the same basic shot but in focus:
anyway, i\'m not particularly happy with the lens, but for the price it does well enough for landscape. there doesn\'t really seem to be anything else in that focal length that doesn\'t have it\'s own problems either. personally i\'m not too concerned because it\'s not really my favorite focal length, i rarely shoot wider than 28mm.
Nov 19, 2010 at 02:47 PM
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the fog in these shots seems to help it out a bit.
