| sent on June 28, 2017
Pros: Sharpness, construction, is small and light
Cons: blurred, nervous, loud noises
Opinion: I used it a lifetime ago, almost by chance and for a few tens of euros. Only then did I realize I had to be a proud owner! It is far more difficult to find the successor (version II), and much better constructed: metal bayonet, distance windows, true manual MAF ring, in short, there is no comparison in the level of visual and tactile satisfaction. But it is in the optical rendering that this mini-lens amazes: I find it incredible that a project designed thirty years ago for the film can give today, on digital, similar results. And not only with no reverential fears towards more recent and high-end goals, but often even beating them! The rendering to TA is truly modest, and is accompanied by a vignetting, as is common to the optics with this maximum aperture: the use at f1 .8 is, in fact, limited to cases where deliberately a vintage effect is sought, accentuated by the detachment of planes very marked by the minimum depth offield, and blurry, which is so soft and pleasant in that case, because the lens uses the perfect circularity of the hole left free from the diaphragm. But just close to f2.5-2.8 to make the vignetting disappear almost and, above all, see the solution already on very good levels at the center and good at the margins. f4 The sharpness and the center-edge uniformity leaves you speechless, and f5.6 reaches a simply incredible peak across the entire frame. The yield remains gorgeous at f8 to decrease, but not drastically, only minute, such as eyelash, hair, wrinkles, grass bands etc., are returned to the native raw with an engraving which seems to have already been processed with sharpening in PP.rnThe distortion is completely absent.rnOnly you can not have everything from life, and in fact the limit of this goal is the rather nervous blur, and the only 5 lamella diaphragm, which in certain situations generate pentagons enoughbent at reflections or light spots out of focus. The AF is lense and noisy, but for me it is not a problem (I am not a professional) and in fact it makes me a bit sympathetic. With my Eos 5D old showing a certain back-focusing, which has tarnished some use and results, a problem solved with the fine adjustment of 5D MkII. With this body the lens also has a better performance than the 5D old, especially at full aperture, where the 21mpx allows you to recover a great detail by carefully treating the sharpening. In fact, I use it mostly at TA, in search of the very small PDC and of the particular blurring effect of the out of focus. RnIn conclusion: if you find one in order, take it! It's in a pocket mounted on the car seems to miss the lens, or there's only a 1.4x multiplier (thank you neck and / or shoulder), and when you look at photos on your pc you will never be disappointed. |
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