Re: Sell Sony 35mm Gm for the new Viltrox 35mm Evo 1.8 II - thoughts?
Jonas B wrote: Daran wrote: Jonas B wrote:My take... well, I sold the 35GM years ago as the image quality wasn't that good. The CA was disturbing.
Huh? Can you substantiate that? I am somewhat sensitive to LOCA issues, but I have the lens and can't say I have any issue with its CA performance. To quote Phillip Reeve reviewing the lens: "Longitudinal CA are generally well corrected, the performance is similar to that of the Sigma 35mm 1.2 Art DG DN, maybe even a little better, which is good news."
Didn't I do that in the post above yours? Or perhaps not enough?
I'll not get into a long boring discussion about the 35GM and LoCa. I've been there, done that: when the lens was new I reported back here on my findings showing several samples. Fred M rearranged the threads about the 35GM after some time and now I don't know where those images are more.
Sometimes we don't the same thing though. If some users don't see or if I had two bad copies, well, then everything is fine.
Here is from the Lenstip review:
Concerning LOCA the Voigtländer 35mm/f.2.0 is clearly the much better lens:
