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| sent on 05 Maggio 2017
Pros: Optical quality, mechanical construction, compact size, low weight, eye-catching styling, tropicalization.
Cons: Nothing
Opinion: It is very sharp throughout the frame even at full opening, even on the extreme edges, extremely sharp closing a single diaphragm, then remains practically the same, sharp always. Beautiful full colors, bright on the frame, living image, medium contrast, open shadows, and even in the viewfinder the image is bright, more than with the 14 - 24 F 2.8 that I hold the sun front and on the edges of the field of view excellently. Solid and fluid fire, silent diaphragm, metal lampshade with velvet carry as it used to be, there is no game on anything, MaF scale and PdC, point for MaF in IR. An 18 mm focuses well even without AF and without stigmometer, therefore, no difficulty of MaF, I go with the green dot and do not use the Live View. Used on 2 X D 810 and D4: excellent optics. It mounts very normal filters from 77 m. I took the Milvius 18 mm F 2.8, never tried before, and not the Milvius 21 mm F 2.8 that I tried well, simply because the 18 mm F 2.8 is a very recent design optical, while the 21 mm F 2.8 is 20-year design and because the Zeiss does not combine jokes with quality: in my opinion it is better the 18 mm than the 21 mm, as optical yield. It costs a bit but gives a lot in terms of optical and mechanical quality, the price/quality ratio is very good, it does not cost expensive for what it gives. |