lens compare
May 21, 2013 07:56:31 #
Recently picked up a Canon 40m pancake lens as I posted a few weeks ago. I've been using it along with other lenses for shooting my nephews track meets. Catching action shots of kids running, jumping, throwing..... Let me add the 40m is a 2.8. A recent track meet was going to go later into the night so I grabbed my 50m 1.8 and used it instead. I am not one to look at what I shoot as I go. Bright light and not wanting to use the battery I keep the review off or limited to a short view time. I shot in the same mode and the same numbers for the most part. Conditions at the time of shooting for both would be about the same. I used the same camera body for both lenses, but just on diff days. I found the photos from the 40 to be crisp and shart but the photos (and I mean most of them)from the 50m to be just the slightest of out of focus. As if that lens doesn't respond to movement as fast. Has anyone else tried a side by side with these two lenses and if so what did you find. Love the 40m and wonder if I should even keep the 50m. ?
May 21, 2013 08:22:12 #
I have noticed a difference - yet to the opposite of your results. Also, I'm not using Canon - I'm using Sony with Ziess Lenses - and the 85mm gives me sharper detail than does the 28mm. So I realize we are not compairing apples to apples here. However, throughout my long career - back in the film days - I seemed to have seen more consistant results from lens to lens. Yet in this digital age - I think we have fixed our eyes on pixels to the point that differences between lenses seem to jump out at us. With that said - after processing images in the Sony Software - and then printing out on my Epson Photo Printer - the differences are less noticable all the way to 11x17 - but if I print larger poster images with an outside vendor - the difference comes back to life - yet so far no client has complained to me - and I seem to find these differences so slight that it must be my own detail phobia that is controling the whole outcome - you know - what we think about we bring about. None the less - I still love all my Ziess Lenses - they cost a small fortune but they are better on the poster sizes - which I have a few clients that go big - and so I am saving up for the 80mp camera.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
May 22, 2013 10:24:23 #
I was given the Canon 40 Pancake lens 3 months ago, I have found it to be an excellent walk around lens, very sharp pictures ... it is also great indoors as well. I shoot flowers and gardens with the 40 mm when I don't want to lug around my 70- 200. I use it on a 60Dslr .. I would recommend it plus the cost is low for the great output.
in the BU Greenhouse last week 5/18/2013
May 22, 2013 10:51:11 #
That is beautiful. Wish my garden looked like that - the rain has beat everything down this year. Maybe next year.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.