Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Monday, May 21, 2012, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > 3. I am breathing a sigh of relief that the 16-35 worked well, as it saved > me a ton of money! The lenses which, IMHO, do not work well at this sensor > resolution include the 24mm f2.8, 35mm f2, 24-120 f4, 50mm f1.4 - of course > all the primes mentioned are a bit old in the tooth, and I think I will > sell the lot and buy the newer iterations! I never liked the 24-120 f4, > which I stupidly bought on an impulse, and had kept it back just in case it > worked well with the D800E, but I still do not like the results. The 85 > f1.8 and 180mm f2.8 work pretty well, as does my old, plastic, lightweight > favourite the 24-85mm f3.5-4.5. I have yet to test out my safari bazookas > on it, but I foresee no problem there as they are all pretty much top of > the line stuff. What I am more interested is how TCs would work on the long > lenses. In case you haven't seen this yet...? the D800's high resolution prompted Roger Cicala of lensrentals.com to test multiple samples of the Nikon-mount lenses they stock, with the aim of figuring out which available lenses actually provide useful detail to all those pixels: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/d800-lens-selection (This blog is in general excellent and interesting.) -Jeff