Joseph,
although the picture is lovely and I like shooting roses too, I think
you oversharpened this one. The petal edge on the right looks very
unnatural to me.
And WRT your testing and comparison of D-FA and FA 50/2.8 macro, how did
you judge focus?
Which body did you use? Did you focus by the screen, did you use focus
confirmation in the finder, did you vary distances slightly? I have
experienced deviations between the screen image and the final picture in
the past, so I don't trustlens sharpness tests that don't take this into
account, too. I do not want to say that you did sloppy testing. I just
want to propose that the tested lenses might be even better, if you
don#t trust the image on the focusing screen too much.
Pancho
Joseph Tainter schrieb:
Here's an early photo:
http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/3537/display/5022625
Joe