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Total winner. No-brainer RF lens

Started Mar 7, 2019 | User reviews thread
LMOE Regular Member • Posts: 267
Re: Total winner. No-brainer RF lens
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LeicaBOSS wrote:

Also - and I can't believe I am doing this - here are some terrible photos to illustrate what torturing this lens looks like. I ran outside and took many of these when I saw how off the rails the comments here got.

If you love to use your fast 35mm to take wide-open-in-broad-daylight photos of foliage or busy backgrounds - it's good to know what you're getting into.

First - this is what the out of focus rendering is generally like with this lens. Neutral, basic, nondescript.

Next - here's the old "brick wall" test. This is an extreme corner at 100%. Handheld, focused on the center of the frame. So ... BAD NEWS... if you spend $400 on this lens and really really wanted to take handheld photos of brick walls, wide open and have perfect corners - you won't. You also need a new hobby.

Extreme corner for you brick wall enthusiasts. Yes, I turn off all the software corrections.

NEXT. Bad Bokehs.

Here's a Leica Summicron M 35mm ASPH. Known for its terrible, low-rent rendering and awful bokeh. Wide open at f/2. It looks bad.

Bad bokeh, bro.

I KNOW, LITERALLY THE BADDEST.

Bad Leica Summicron M 35mm f/2 ASPH photo.

Similar photo - with this 35 RF. Don't take photos like this. But if you have to - it's not a disaster.

Another attempt at really bad bokeh with the 35RF

By the way - here's strong backlighting with the 35 RF.

Ok, one more bad blurbutter. The Leica. Nervous, busy. Not particularly pleasing.

Also, tell me all about the magenta corner/edge shifts with this lens on the EOS R with this lens and how that makes it totally useless.

The RF with a similar "bad bokeh" situation:

Or this one with the 35 RF

Summary: I can't believe I just took garbage back yard photos to try and make the blur of this lens look as bad as possible. But here it is.

If you want to take close-up pictures of mugs and weeds, fine.  Nobody is disputing the strengths of this lens.  The story changes when trying to use it as a normal 35mm.  It is a one-trick pony.  Not a bad thing.  Canon even understood this when they priced the lens.

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