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Handheld in lowlight with the 32mm f/1.4 (PICS)

Started Oct 13, 2018 | Discussions thread
Marco Nero
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Bhotoz - lens sharpness (PICS)
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Bhotoz wrote:

Love these!

Marco, could you take some comparison shots (like "wall shots") of 28mm and 32mm @f4 and f5.6. Is there difference in sharpness at center or edges? Thanks!

It's still pouring rain outside here in Sydney. The 28mm is a very sharp lens although i haven't conducted any comparison tests with it to detect aspherical aberrations. The 32mm lens is said to have the tiniest amount of distortion that most people won't even notice... it is virtually impossible to detect without grid-mapping etc. I haven't even bothered to look for it myself.  Sharpness of the 32mm lens puts it in the top tier and it's the sharpest EF-M lens available... possibly surpassing the EF 35mm f/1.4 II USM lens when comparing corners on APS-C bodies.   Aligning the lens with street poles and window frames in the city required no lens correction from me later.  This is literally the sharpest lens I've used.
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Reduced to 2000 pixels  - no correction added during PP.

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The lens is sharp from corner to corner, even wide open there's not any discernible corner softness.  Again, here's some unedited images taken in daylight with this lens that haven't been reduced (these are directly from the camera).
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32mm lens @ f/3.5

32mm lens @ f/8

32mm lens @ f/5.6

32mm lens @ f/5.6

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Marco Nero.

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