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Went to buy a SonyA7 but ended up with a Touit...
So I went to buy A Sony A7 and the Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 I have seen some nice files from this combo, but not files than could address one lens issue LoCA (see here for an explanation of what it is http://photographylife.com/what-is-chromatic-aberration. So I bought my little rig to easily test for it. While the Sony FE 55mm 1.8 is very nice, it did not do well at all with LoCA. I decided against getting the Camera mainly for this reason and to a lesser extent due to the noisy shutter. Felin a bit off I was about to leave when I saw they had a couple of Touit lenses. I took a look at them and did a few quick tests. The 32mm 1.8 is remarkable. It has excellent LoCA control. Up there with the very best lenses Forward correction is almost 100% while there is only the slightest rear LoCA. This is simply amazing in such a small and relatively inexpensive lens. This little gem is really a minature Otus, no kidding. Everything else is really good about it to. It's really light. The X-T1 with this lens on is perfectly balanced. AF apears to integrate with the X-T1 very well. I have not tested tracking yet. I'll post the test images later... Apr 12 14 03:44 pm Link Fred Greissing wrote: Have you tried the Fuji 35mm f/1.4? Most tests seem to confirm they're neck to neck in terms of center sharpness (though the Touit handily beats the Fuji in corner sharpness if that matters to you) with the Fuji providing more pleasing bokeh overall. And obviously there's the 2/3rd stop and shallower DoF advantage. Plus the benefits of getting timely firmware updates with future Fuji bodies, etc etc. Apr 12 14 04:37 pm Link I wonder how the Samyung glass fairs against this? I've read some very good results about their lenses. Apr 12 14 05:04 pm Link Jon Macapodi wrote: From what I can tell LoCA is corrected better on the Zeiss Touit. It is non existent in the forward part of the Bokeh and practically non existent in the rear bokeh. Apr 12 14 06:00 pm Link Jon Macapodi wrote: From what I can tell LoCA is corrected better on the Zeiss Touit. It is non existent in the forward part of the Bokeh and practically non existent in the rear bokeh. Apr 12 14 06:35 pm Link Found a LoCA test for the Fuji 35mm 1.4.  This is from the rear bokeh. You can see that the black spades symbol goes green. Here is another test at f2.  You can see the color shift. I have seen this be a problem in the real world. For example dark stubble of beard will shift to green if it is in the rear bokeh in a wide open shot with the subjects head turned a little. For fashion a shirt with black and white pattern for fabric mesh. You will get false colors in front and rear bokeh. White shirt especially with rim light. the edge of the shirt against the background will have pink or green fringing. However this type of fringing is easier to remove in post. Fringing on hard edges is easier to remove.... with ACR that is. Fringing removal with Capture One is far inferior, and only removed purple fringing... go figure..... Purple Green hard edge fringing removal with ACR vs Capture One. ACR correction  Capture One Correction  While this is an easier fringing to remove you can see that ACR does it perfectly while Capture one still has residual purple fringing and does nothing for the green. This is easy because it is black against white. This is much harder to correct when it's involves skin or is in the blurrier part of the bokeh. Apr 12 14 07:31 pm Link I bought the Touit 12mm and 32 mm Because B&H prices looks great if you get both lenses at the same time...I am not technically savvy and for what I do it does not really matter but, having 2 Zeiss lenses sounded cool. I have no problem they are fine, but one thing drives me nut, it is the aperture ring on both lenses it can be switched from A to 22 all the way to the widest aperture without hardly been aware of it! Can this be fixed? Aug 16 14 09:19 am Link Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 is very sharp, good contrast and tonal/colour range... sits on my A7r most of the time. Aug 16 14 10:46 am Link Fred Greissing wrote: The 32 doesn't work on FF, right? Aug 17 14 06:25 am Link I missed out on the big Zeiss 1/2 off sale B&H had in June. It ended early due to the demand. Sad face. Aug 17 14 06:54 am Link Mikey McMichaels wrote: Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* FE 35mm F2.8 ZA Aug 17 14 08:54 am Link There may be a profile made for a digital fix. Aug 18 14 05:29 pm Link Mikey McMichaels wrote: No it's APS-C Aug 19 14 08:59 pm Link |
