11-12-2010, 07:25 AM
[quote name='Azo' timestamp='1289530478' post='4116']
Photozone rate this lens as sub-average (2 stars). I compared it side by side with Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 USM (a $1,600 lens, 4 stars)
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Photozones ratings are, at times, a bit hard to understand.
I felt the same like you, when I saw and compared the reviews of
the EF24/1.4L II and the Zeiss 21/2.8 ... two lenses comparable in
price and perforance stop by stop ... and see the different ratings.
But in the end, PZ it certainly one of the best collection of
lens-data ... regarding accuracy, reproducability (of tests) and the
sheer number of lenses.
Just read the verdicts with a grain of salt.
A word to the 30/1.4 ... I used that for some years on a crop-1.6 camera, and I
always liked this lens. It was one of my favourite lenses. But it has a special use
... like lowlight stuff, or stuff where you need limited DOF. As a "landscape" type
lens, you're better of with every standard zoom stopped down to f/8 or f/11.
Just my 2cts ... Rainer
Photozone rate this lens as sub-average (2 stars). I compared it side by side with Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 USM (a $1,600 lens, 4 stars)
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Photozones ratings are, at times, a bit hard to understand.
I felt the same like you, when I saw and compared the reviews of
the EF24/1.4L II and the Zeiss 21/2.8 ... two lenses comparable in
price and perforance stop by stop ... and see the different ratings.
But in the end, PZ it certainly one of the best collection of
lens-data ... regarding accuracy, reproducability (of tests) and the
sheer number of lenses.
Just read the verdicts with a grain of salt.
A word to the 30/1.4 ... I used that for some years on a crop-1.6 camera, and I
always liked this lens. It was one of my favourite lenses. But it has a special use
... like lowlight stuff, or stuff where you need limited DOF. As a "landscape" type
lens, you're better of with every standard zoom stopped down to f/8 or f/11.
Just my 2cts ... Rainer