On 1/8/2019 4:11 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Yes,
I have the MZ 25 F 1.8 too. Nice and compact as mentioned in reviews which
should be a strong point of MFT. I did not appreciate the new F1.2 MZ had such
a small light advantage given the T stop but it does offer better dof control.
Those 19 elements apparently exact a greater price in transmission than Oly's claims about their coatings might lead one
to expect. (Or they cheated just a bit, rounding down?)
Ah, Roger C. has tested four entries.
<https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2018/01/finally-some-m43-mtf-testing-25mm-prime-lens-comparison/>
(Perhaps Oly is going off the rails with size of offerings this year)
Not just this year.
I never found the 25/1.8 very good at subject isolation except if fairly close to the subject with distant background.
Sometimes that can be a challenge to fix in post. The MFT Z 25/1.8 does have decent sunstars though. The lens
certainly doesn't provide the dof control of the OMZ 50/1.8 on OM of course. There is a Voigt 25/0.95 but quite soft
wide open and not sure if get any exif.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2011/02/28/the-voigtlander-f0-95-25mm-micro-43-lens-review-by-david-babsky/Curiously to
get excellent performance and very fast for MFT in the middle focal lengths the lens size and expense usually go up
dramatically so advantage over FF narrows or reverses. For example the CV 40/1.2 for Sonnie is quite sharp wide open,
provides exif and even has a distance encoder to provide focusing distance to cam to enable 5 xis IS. It is very sharp
stopped down for landscapes and have substantial dof control for environmental portraits. It is a pleasure to
handle---I enjoy using that lens.
Oh dear! The Konica Hexanon 40/1.8 I recently picked up cheap doesn't have EXIF, nor a distance encoder. In fact, no
encoder at all. :-) Then again, my A7 doesn't have IBIS, so is distance agnostic . . .
OTOH, it's soft wide open, sharp stopped down, and may turn out to be a useful Alt lens. Also, smaller/ lighter than the
four lenses shown in this review. <https://phillipreeve.net/blog/voigtlander-40mm-f1-2-nokton-aspherical-rolling-review/>
W D L
CV 40/1.2 416 70.1 59.3
Loxia 35/2 340 66.0 62.1
Hexanon 40/1.8* 226 62.4 50.8
* Incl. FE adapter
Yet to do a shoot-out vs. the Super Lentar 35/2.8. The Lentar is much older, pre computer design, but slower. Which will
have the finest awfulness wide open??
Mix It Up Moose
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