[dave9t5]

As I know there are already tons of comparison shot galleries around I thought I keep it simple and stupid and put just some screenshots out of Aperture, showing mostly f/1.4 pictures and 100% crops: http://sojujo.smugmug.com/Testshots/Otus...ma-Art-50/

forgive me the downloading time, those are PNGs from the previews, so no real fine art stuff but at least same conditions for both of them.


I don't think I'll harm any sales numbers. People convinced of the Otus by it's real performance or the myth created around Zeiss (I once was also a believer of that myth) won't stop buying the superdupermegahyper lens and some use it in front of a 16...24 MP camera. Which is fine, it just doesn't give one all it has to give.

 

Very interesting real life images and your comments with them.  

 

Just from the first 2 frames it's obvious (to me) that you're getting better results with the Otus and later images show less (none) LoCA.   That said, the differences are small at 100% indeed.   The Sigma wins on price:performance (and AF) no doubt.  

 

The Merrill images are very convincing indeed!