Annie tested the rare [shoplink 56147 ebay]MS Optical Sonnetar lens[/shoplink] on the GH4:
“The lens at wide open is too soft for our taste, and has a lot of purple fringing. A bit hard to use at wide open, especially on the 4K. The footage was taken in 4K, and Youtube downsized to 1080!”
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Another bad wide open lens at an astronomical price.
Personally, if you can’t make it seasonably sharp wide open why bother?
I’m really confused…that first shot at 11 seconds is soft, but the focus isn’t correct. The plant on the left is in focus but at 1.1f that focus is razor thin and it wasn’t being pulled to get the things in the background in focus. I agree that the lens is ultra soft, especially compared to the voigtlander 25mm, but seriously, this video was a joke of a test.
What a shame – this lens isn’t good for even for 4K (which is about 8-9 megapixels!).
My first DSLR – Olympus E-410 with kit 14-42 lens produced tack sharp images at 10 megapixels – even now some shots which were made with that kit, are sharper than MANY of micro four thirds lenses, especially on latest 16MP bodies. Only premium primes and 12-40 are sugnificantly sharper though on the first 10 and 13 MP micro four thirds PENs you just can’t tell the difference between kits and primes.
This is a very light specialist Rangefinder lens based on an old Sonnar design. It’s not meant to be a super sharp lens much like the Zeiss Sonnar 50 1.5. It takes beautiful pictures on a Rangefinder camera. Best to stick with lenses of which were designed for the purpose!