10-15-2014, 09:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-15-2014, 09:31 AM by Brightcolours.)
Quote:Gah... and I was about to wonder aloud about the almost 2 months of downtime.PZ sharpens the MTF images, lenstip does not. Sharpening does not lift every sampling up the same way, sharp results get less lifted than less sharp results. This (partly) will explain why the lens seems to perform better in PZ then in lenstip reviews.Lenstip put this lens down big time, and here it actually looks better than that. The only thing I'd really like to contest is the very last sentence of the verdict: not every fifty has to be "nifty", and it's kinda silly to hold every 50ish mm lens to the same standard. For this kind of lenses, I suggest a new category - "hefty fifty" or something.
Still, this lens is not about sharpness, but about rendering softer in OOF parts on purpose. With a silly price tag.
"error" in the review text:
"The outer image region is good to very good at f/1.4 and f/2 - which is actually pretty impressive."
The graph shows it to be in the "good" part, not reaching the very good at f1.4 and f2.