[davidmanze]

 

 

It's very easy, @AiryDiscus and @dave9to5: If Zeiss calls the highest price ever for a 55/1.4 it has to be the best, from copy to copy. Everywhere. Does a customer really needs to do a centering or MTF test by himself to be sure he/she got a good copy?

 

Plus, being the failure copies pre-screened: Doesn't this make the whole testing results questionable? As lensrentals doesn't stock a lot of expensive lenses but quite a number of cheaper ones. So, with pre-selection coming into play, we're looking here at the "avant-garde" of their production but not to the "out-in-the-wild" situation.

 

So, how much more possible would it be to get a lousy copy? 

 

Thanks for the samples, @AiryDiscus

 Yes, as I thought  Mr. Discus, this tests shows the favourable side of lens variation......... and it's dead easy to get a lousy copy, nothing easier!  

 The lens industry is the most unique industry in the world and if it wasn't for the retail laws of the right to return a product within fourteen days (depending on the country concerned) for refund/exchange, we would be at the "beck and call" of lens manufacturers business decisions!  

 

   Decentered lenses spend most of their life flying round in airplanes and postal delivery vans landing only  briefly on DSLRs to re-continue their circumnavigation of the globe.

 

 

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