paulraphael
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
I haven't directly tested the lenses you're mentioning on the d800, but I find the 24-70 to be dramatically sharper at all focal lengths than the single-coated 80mm planar (70s? 60s?) that I borrowed for my last project.
At 50mm it's sharper in the center (but not quite as sharp in the corners) than my 50 1.8g, which is sharper all around than my 50 1.8 ai-s that I got in the 1980s.
It seems sharper at 24mm than my old 24mm ai-s lens (but that's not around to compare anymore, and my copy wasn't so great).
It's not as sharp as my 28mm schneider PC super angulon (unshifted). And I know some people here think that lens is a dog.
Not sure what to conclude from any of this ...
In order to get it to 80, maybe you had to twist the zoom ring past the point where it brokePaul,
You are lucky, I tried that lens and the result was not any better than 24-85,
only one stop faster which was not important for me. In a comparison test
the quality at 50 is not better than my old Nikkor 50 mm f/2 from 1968 .
At 80 the quality is worse than 80mm Planar of my Hasselblad from 1970
and at 40 is worse than my Distagon from the same era.
I am trying to test some Mamya lenses, they are much lighter.
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Manouch
I haven't directly tested the lenses you're mentioning on the d800, but I find the 24-70 to be dramatically sharper at all focal lengths than the single-coated 80mm planar (70s? 60s?) that I borrowed for my last project.
At 50mm it's sharper in the center (but not quite as sharp in the corners) than my 50 1.8g, which is sharper all around than my 50 1.8 ai-s that I got in the 1980s.
It seems sharper at 24mm than my old 24mm ai-s lens (but that's not around to compare anymore, and my copy wasn't so great).
It's not as sharp as my 28mm schneider PC super angulon (unshifted). And I know some people here think that lens is a dog.
Not sure what to conclude from any of this ...