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Finally, the Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S Lens Teardown

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Just so you know, my original title was “Lens Disassembly is a Complicated Profession. Don’t You Agree?” The editor said nobody would know what the post was about. But I promise, you’ll see by the end of this; lens disassembly is a complicated profession. We were interested in this disassembly, and by interested, I mean both […]

Lenses and Optics

Practical Use of Field Curvature Graphs – the 50mm Primes

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In my last two posts (1,2), I’ve been using field curvature graphs to look at how lenses behave as you stop them down. It’s been a fairly limited data set; basically 35mm prime lenses and some zooms at 35mm. I’m going to keep going with this topic and today look at a different focal length […]

Stopping down Lens

Geek Articles

Things You Don’t Know About Stopping Down Your Lens

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Warning: This is a somewhat Geeky article. It has some real points that are useful for anyone who uses lenses, though, so I’ve tried to keep it mostly in English.  In imaging, there are a lot of topics where people over-generalize; there’s a general tendency for something to happen, but people become convinced that the […]

Sigma 35mm f/1.2 MTF Charts

Lenses and Optics

MTF Tests of the Sigma 35mm f/1.2 DG Art

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We just finished testing a couple of 35mm prime lenses and came away quite impressed. But it took a little longer to finish testing the one everyone had been asking about; the Sigma 35mm f/1.2 DG Art lens. I declared the Tamron 35mm f/1.4 SP the sharpest 35mm lens we had tested just a week […]

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