05-20-2011, 09:22 AM
Nothing German about it (the rating language).
The difference with the english photo press (mags) is: Their reviews and tests are crap, and their ratings should not be trusted (in general, of course there might be exceptions).
About the "german" ratings:
The German photo magazin "Foto Magazin" has, for decades, used the most laughable ratings ever.
Every lens would be at least "gut".
Most mediocre lenses would get "sehr gut".
The real "good" lenses would be called "super".
The lowest rating I have seen would have been for some really crappy colour film, which then would get the rating of "noch gut".
Example: Tokina 24-200mm f3.5-5.6 AT-X.
"In all focal lengths, it shows a clear brilliance loss from center to edge. Stopping down brings a bit of improvement."
"Light fall off towards the corners wide open at the wide end is very high, in mid and long end still visible."
"24mm, clear barrel distortion, tele clearly pin cushion distorted."
"Colour cast": Clearly warm (yellow).
"At tele, very high veil porblems"
"Zoom with many achilles heels."
Rating: Sehr gut....
The difference with the english photo press (mags) is: Their reviews and tests are crap, and their ratings should not be trusted (in general, of course there might be exceptions).
About the "german" ratings:
The German photo magazin "Foto Magazin" has, for decades, used the most laughable ratings ever.
Every lens would be at least "gut".
Most mediocre lenses would get "sehr gut".
The real "good" lenses would be called "super".
The lowest rating I have seen would have been for some really crappy colour film, which then would get the rating of "noch gut".
Example: Tokina 24-200mm f3.5-5.6 AT-X.
"In all focal lengths, it shows a clear brilliance loss from center to edge. Stopping down brings a bit of improvement."
"Light fall off towards the corners wide open at the wide end is very high, in mid and long end still visible."
"24mm, clear barrel distortion, tele clearly pin cushion distorted."
"Colour cast": Clearly warm (yellow).
"At tele, very high veil porblems"
"Zoom with many achilles heels."
Rating: Sehr gut....