Tag: comparison
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Glass – 05. Prinzflex 28mm F2.8 | Sample 3
Another way to utilise the spherical bokeh patterns is to enhance the perspective. The leading lines in the background are aided by the angle of the bokeh on that side of the photo.
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Glass – 05. Prinzflex 28mm F2.8 | Sample 2
Here you can see that the focus is very odd – the image looks like it’s been distorted by some sort of glass orb – a similar swirl of bokeh to the old and gloruous Petzval lenses.
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Glass – 05. Prinzflex 28mm F2.8 | Sample 1
This is a pretty good example of the skewed focus plane of this lens. If you look at the sharpness of the trees on the far right, you can see they’re more in focus than the trees in the middle of the frame. does a great job of separating subjects from background while maintaining detail…
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Glass – 05. Prinzflex 28mm F2.8 | Test
The wide angle distortion is quite pleasing and the vignetting helps focus on the middle of the frame. There is however a lot of chromatic aberration around the edges if you care about that sort of thing.
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Glass – 05. Prinzflex 28mm F2.8 | Overview
This is a very quirky lens. Quite hazy and vignetted, great bokeh at a wide angle and pretty sharp at small apertures. The most interesting feature is definitely the focus plane. Originally a Pentax mount i think but the adapter is slim enough for use with EF cameras.
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Glass – 04. Tamron 70-300mm F4.0-5.6 | Sample 2
A similar story here to yesterday’s sample but this one was taken in indirect light, making it a lot softer. Bounced light looks really good through this lens.
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Glass – 04. Tamron 70-300mm F4.0-5.6 | Sample 1
The one odd thing about the lens is that it tends to dull green light. Here you can see that the sky is unnaturally blue and the rose is red hot but the leaves have a dull, murky green colour and the lighting almost gives the impression of a solar eclipse, very harsh but pale…
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Glass – 04. Tamron 70-300mm F4.0-5.6 | Test
Even in these moderate light conditions, the image is perfectly sharp from corner to corner, at 70mm and F4.0. What you will see in upcoming samples is that the lens manages to capture a very matte image. The light trap/black lining on the inside of the lens does a really good job and since it’s…
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Glass – 04. Tamron 70-300mm F4.0-5.6 | Overview
70-300mm range gives some space for wildlife photography but on a full frame sensor, it won’t get a close photo of a bird more than 50m away which, in most instances is pretty useless. I use it mostly for travel photos and nature reserves. It’s flexible enough to get some portraits too. All that said,…
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Glass – 03a. 2x Vivitar 28-80mm F3.5-5.6 | Test
The clarity of the lens isn’t great. You can see that it looks hazy and the edges turn out quite soft. This is more obvious at the 80mm/160mm end (portrayed). At 28mm/56mm the lack of sharpness isn’t as obvious and not as important.
Maks Swiderek 