I did some portraits with the new 1.4/35. I am starting to wonder if LC got a bad copy of the ZE too for his reviews. All these images were shot at f/1.4 and no sharpening was applied (ie LR sharpness settings were at 0). No PP on these images except for highlight recovery in one of the images.. I am starting to get blown away by this lens. There are JPG artifacts by Flickr / LR JPG converter. On my screen they look very natural..
