cliffpatte
Speed camera anarchist
As a matter of interest, and also to kill half an hour, I put together a little set of shots taken with various zoom lenses and one prime. All lenses were set to about the same field of view (equivalent to 35mm on a crop body or 53mm on full frame) The same subject (a jug with some flowers in it) was shot at ISO400 and F5.6 and 1/125th on each body (two bodies used were Nikon D7000 and Sony Alpha 200) - if you want to know which one is which, turn on Show Info
Slideshow herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cliffpatte/sets/72157626734979975/show/
PS, for me, this is the best of them:
35mm 1.4 Centre Crop by cliffpatte, on Flickr
Although in this test there is not that much in it between all the Nikkors.
With the Sony / Minoltas, the newer plastic one is sharper and more accurate in terms of colours but neither is a patch on even the oldest and cheapest 24-85 Nikkor in terms of sharpness and punch. The Sony bokeh is particularly horrible. At 85mm the 24-85 AF-D Nikkor is actually OK from a bokeh point of view, but in a centre crop shoot out, only the AF-S 35mm prime really looks nice edge to edge.
Slideshow herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cliffpatte/sets/72157626734979975/show/
PS, for me, this is the best of them:
35mm 1.4 Centre Crop by cliffpatte, on Flickr
Although in this test there is not that much in it between all the Nikkors.
With the Sony / Minoltas, the newer plastic one is sharper and more accurate in terms of colours but neither is a patch on even the oldest and cheapest 24-85 Nikkor in terms of sharpness and punch. The Sony bokeh is particularly horrible. At 85mm the 24-85 AF-D Nikkor is actually OK from a bokeh point of view, but in a centre crop shoot out, only the AF-S 35mm prime really looks nice edge to edge.