Monty Your post sounds like deja vu to me. I had exactly the same experience in February when I bought a 120mm Macro. My set up is the same as yours except I use a Phase one H20 I also have a digitar 80mm M in a Rollei shutter and it performs superbly down to f16.5 The 120 digitar is a disappointment by comparison. I sent the original back to Schneider and the replacement was marginally better. The lens seems unusually sensitive to focus and exposed the accuracy (or lack of it) of the Xact. The fact remains though it is not as good as the 80mm despite their graphs and charts.
It is however not a bad lens and will produce acceptable results but only down to f16 and in fact the same is true of the 80mm Macro and the other digital lenses. Perhaps you have a rogue lens? Schneider ought to investigate. Strangely image degradation seems less apparent with Nikon macro glass at smaller apertures, but there again I use them with a Philips chip so the pixel well size might be a factor. Cheers Paul > All is fine excepting one lens...120mm macro. This lens seems very fuzzy > especially at close focussing and in my opinion not very good quality. I've > done my testing and found it is focussing at the right plane and tested all > the apertures and found it only good up to f16.I use live video for > focussing. I've borrowed and tested an identical one with the same results. > I've complained to Schneider who replied as follows.. Paul Hartley Hartley Studios London Tel:44 (0)20 7482 3768 Paul(at)hartleystudios.com http://www.hartleystudios.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
