wowza, 85mm 1.8

[dod]

just arrived today and I'm impressed :D 100% crop, no sharpening

http://premium1.uploadit.org/scottydod//ML1W3457100.jpg

[whitewash]

ive got this lens and its beautiful, i love using it!

[Warspite]

Love mine - very sharp and very fast focusing, full-time manual focus and well built to boot.

All in all this is probably my favourite lens just for its sheer quality and overall performance.

:thumbs:

[Bachs]

My lenses produce shots like that (after 2 hours in CS2)

Very impressive!

[P-E]

You got a new lens then:)

Cant see anything at moment apart from RedX.

I see it now.

[chuckles]

I'm quite shocked at the "fringing" around the highights near the clothes peg :(

Sometimes I do wonder about digital photography...... some of the things we put up with now [costing a King's ransom] we would never have tolerated such aberrations 15 years ago....

[SammyC]

That's not just colour cast from the red jumper is it?

[chuckles]

No, I shouldn't think so.... it's bleeding into the green background. It's highlight fringing. Not really near the red jumper.

[DRZ]

Yeah, its also visible on the white stripes but not as bad as on the spring of the peg.

Bad copy or "they all do that, sir"?

[RobertP]

Well it looks pretty good to me :)

Wish I had decent colour vision though - can't see anything you all describe.(apart from the purple fringe on the peg spring)

[Warspite]

Looking at the fringing I'd wonder if the front element has actually been cleaned properly - I've had this before when I've used a little too much cleaning solution on the cloth when cleaning my lenses.

[dod]

Reading up apparently fringing can be an issue wide open. Looking at a few of todays there absolutely no sign of it after F2 :)

[Ally]

Great stuff. I love mine, most used lens I would say. It's at the sharpest at f2.2 and down. I shoot the basketball at f2.2 and if I have to I will use f1.8. Enjoy it!

[SDK^]

rG-Tom had the same CA on his 85mm 1.8 and many other owners have as well. It's nothing major to worry about.