Sunday, November 22, 2009

135mm, 3 lenses, 2 primes, 1 zoom, corner.

I am finally reaching the end of these comparison here (I won't do 200mm on this subject, it is not far enough). Corner performance of the:

Sony 70-200 f/2.8 G
Minolta 135mm f/2.8 (another 20 years old lens)
Sony 135mm T4.5 STF.

(Even if two lenses are called "Sony", all three are actually Minolta designs).

f-stop

Minolta 135mm f/2.8

Sony 70-200 f/2.8 G

Sony 135mm STF

f/2.8-T4.5



f/4-T5.6



f/5.6


f/8


f/11




Interestingly, the best corner performance comes from the tiny 135mm f/2.8 prime (look at the writing on the newspaper). The STF does not quite live to its reputation, since is the least sharp of the three. In all fairness however, I should point out that all three lenses are close to perfection at full aperture and that the differences are inconsequential.