12-04-2017, 09:01 AM
Great to see reviews coming. 🙂
Mixed feelings, I would say. Central sharpness is great, not that easy to swallow soft corners for a big and expensive lens as this one. Seems to be what technology allows at the time, though.
Boils down to bokeh, really. It looks just fine to me, looking at samples. Taking aside some lenses that really suck, the quest for perfect round unsharp spotlight seems a bit artificial to me: spotlight looks ugly both ways, being onion shaped or or not. 😠Puting the subject in front of suitable background seems cheaper way to get to the pleasing bokeh, as the flowers sample proves it.
Mixed feelings, I would say. Central sharpness is great, not that easy to swallow soft corners for a big and expensive lens as this one. Seems to be what technology allows at the time, though.
Boils down to bokeh, really. It looks just fine to me, looking at samples. Taking aside some lenses that really suck, the quest for perfect round unsharp spotlight seems a bit artificial to me: spotlight looks ugly both ways, being onion shaped or or not. 😠Puting the subject in front of suitable background seems cheaper way to get to the pleasing bokeh, as the flowers sample proves it.