Macro Lens tests

[hyperbiz]

This site is in German...but scroll down to the test shots taken of a toy locomotive...very informative!!!

http://iapf.physik.tu-berlin.de/jbohs/HKO/TUBerlin/dforum/macro/Macro100.html

Tom

[JPS]

Great test ! ...only wish it could be translated as I don't read german ! :(
...but once again, this make me more happy me having bought my Tamron SP90 ! :D ...and despite the newer SP90 "DI", -wich is of course more expensive than the previous one- has perhaps more coating, I wont get rid of mine !!! :p
Thanks for finding and sharing this URL !!!
:cheers:

[traumlandschaft]

Come on, Jean-Pierre, you are from Switzerland - and no German? :)

Ok, I will just inform about the Result at all:

- the Tamron is the best in the area of 100 mm. The AF is accurate, but slow and noisy. The Center of the Canon is not worse, but wide open you see the weekness in the corners. Above F8 all of the lenses are quite the same, F32 is useless. The Canon has the fastest AF, but not as secure as the Tamron. The Sigma is worse.

- the MPE65 is not from this world - as expected. Optically the Sigma 50 mm is quite similar, mechanically it is a mess - the AF is practically worthless.

- at 180 mm the Tamron is perfect, directly after this comes the Canon, which only wide open shows some weaknesses. The gap to the Sigma is bigger, possibly influenced by the weak AF. Mechanically all 180 mm are ok.

All lenses are testet at 24x36 mm

If somebody finds an error in writing - you can keep it ;)

Regards

Peter

[JPS]

Come on, Jean-Pierre, you are from Switzerland - and no German? :)
I've done 5 years of german at school, but that was a loooongtime ago, and as I never had to use it, I've forgotten completly, but OTOH I do speak, read and write french, english, italian and portuguese, so I can usually manage all over the world ! :cool:


.............Above F8 all of the lenses are quite the same, F32 is useless.
Strange, as most of my macro shots are -when possible- between f/22 and f/38 with the Tamron SP90 ! I don't find that the quality is degrading with apertures smaller than f/8 ! :)
:cheers:

[Pimenta]

É bom ver por aqui gente que fala a língua do Camões... ;)

Eheheh. Just picking on Jean-Pierre.

Best regards.

Vasco Pimenta.

[JPS]

...................É bom ver por aqui gente que fala a língua do Camões... ;).........
Hi Vasco ! Seja muito bemvindo neste "Fuji site" ! Você é de onde ? Portugal ou Brasil ?
:cheers:

[Pimenta]

I'm from Portugal, although currently working/living in the Netherlands.

It's probably best to keep it in English, or else we'd be outcasting from the thread 99% of the people here... ;)

Best regards.

P.S. - BTW, where does your Portuguese come from?

[JPS]

.............BTW, where does your Portuguese come from?........
Hi ! I'm married with a "carioca da gemma", who in fact lived the second half of her life in the north-east (Paraiba) ! ...so I ended up speaking with a mixture of "carioca" and "nordestino" accent... :throwup:
:cheers:

[damandit9999]

I've done 5 years of german at school, but that was a loooongtime ago, and as I never had to use it, I've forgotten completly, but OTOH I do speak, read and write french, english, italian and portuguese, so I can usually manage all over the world ! :cool:
:cheers:

I'm fluent in English, Malay, French, C++, Java, and OpenGL :rockon: Just messin... :p It actually happened though, I read somebody's resume where he put C++ as one of his foreign languages :troutsmac

Macro lenses are cool, sometimes I wish I didn't sell mine... Well, i was broke...

[stevebri]

Eu acho que nao meus amigos.

Eu so ingesh e eu falo Portuguese do Brasil (um pouco fraco e nao igual de Portuguese de Portugal).

Eu concorde com JPS, benvindo do Site que foi 'Fuji S2' e boa sorte amigo...

I cannot write it at all well, but I can 'bate papo' quite well after several choppe's.

Steve