Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, Thanks for the link - I have come to pretty pretty much the same conclusions, except for the 24-120, which I think is crappy - or maybe I am struggling with a bad sample, because Thom Hogan comes to the same conclusion as Roger Cicala. I think I will send it in to Nikon under warranty for a check up. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >