As I recall, Arnold Stark did a comparison of most all of the 85mm lenses and had posted the real life results. Is that page still active?
Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 1:10 PM Subject: Re: M85mm f2.0 bokeh >I promised Tom C that I would try to do a bokeh comparison between the > A85/1.4, M85/2, FA77 and DA70 lenses. > I had a few moments between supper and getting bombed, so here goes: > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/m852bokeh/852bokeh.html > > I set up using the 85/1.4 with the intention of leaving the camera > stationary, and cropping the images from the shorter lenses. I felt it > best > for comparative purposes if the camera: subject/background ratio stayed > the > same. > I didn't go to extremes regarding matching densities, I used one of the > 85/1.4 files as a reference and used the middle levels slider to get them > close. > > As I expected, the M85/2 stands up very well compared to the much newer, > and > much more expensive glass. > > Enjoy > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
