10-25-2010, 02:52 AM
Over the last few days I've been reading your responses and trying to digest all the information and data. Thank you all for an hugely informative thread! Coincidentally this post by Ben Horton (http://photocinenews.com/2010/10/22/nat-...iss-glass/) went up two days ago and has been getting a lot of attention. The testing was far from scientific and the sample Canon images are presented on a much higher contrast scene than the Zeiss, which also shows green/purple fringing from CAs on certain edges.
Out of curiosity I checked and found that Photozone had in fact reviewed that lens and had shown the Zeiss to be not quite as strong optically as the Canon 85mm f/1.2 L.
Since its my understanding that medium format digital does not have AA filters, and has to have glass that can provide that native sharpness, wouldn't a lens designed for medium format theoretically be able to provide a higher quality image? Could it be that the AA on the FF and APS-C bodies work against the higher grade glass?
-Javier
Out of curiosity I checked and found that Photozone had in fact reviewed that lens and had shown the Zeiss to be not quite as strong optically as the Canon 85mm f/1.2 L.
Since its my understanding that medium format digital does not have AA filters, and has to have glass that can provide that native sharpness, wouldn't a lens designed for medium format theoretically be able to provide a higher quality image? Could it be that the AA on the FF and APS-C bodies work against the higher grade glass?
-Javier