| sent on September 29, 2019
Pros: Metal construction, E-Mount version with 13 slats, AC equal to 0, RR 2:1, excellent IQ, ridiculous price of about 500 euros
Cons: absurdly inaccurate focus, metal that doesn't return a premium feel, unzigged lampshade, plastic, slack, no easel attachment, availability
Opinion: I've been waiting for this lens a lot, about 4 months, and for now I'm not satisfied with it. Optical side you can not say anything, it is the top you can want for macro. The problems, however, arise as soon as we stop looking at the result, and the reasons are summarized in the cons. Let's start with the focus that is inaccurate, has a rotation angle too small: obscenely short for playback ratios from 1:4 to infinity, and just enough for macro distances. It will be impossible to use this lens as portrait canvases, the focus is absolutely out of the question that it succeeds. Real macro side (so from 1:4 to 2:1 ) we are at the limit, you have nowhere near the precision that you can get with an irix 150mm (of which you find my review ). It's a real shame, because optical side is the best you can wish for macro side: the wording APO is real, and any sensor will not pull out green-purple halos or other chromatic aberrations of sorts. The problem is that in the use you are really castrated, also because the lens is very long in the Sony version, and not having the easel attachment, the whole thing turns out to be ungainly and unstable. I am very disappointed, also because I imagined a lens along the lines of the Laowa 105, which instead apart from a lampshade to forget, has a granite Zeiss-style construction, an eternal focus style Zeiss 100 f2, and a general feeling from prestige lens. We would advise against it, because at this price it will beat any other macro lenses on the market, but I would have preferred it to cost maybe 300 to 400 euros more but did not have all these characteristics visibly necessary to reduce production costs, that would make it the best macro lens in existence. |
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