Canon 40mm f2.8 › Optical Performance
40 positive · 10 mixed · 15 critical mentions across 65 sources.
I have 50 millimeter for two years and 40 millimeter for almost four years and always considered 40 millimeter to be a bit sharper to be sure I repeated the test with careful manual focus and really there it is 40 millimeter does deliver a bit more resolution and also a bit better contrast I have…
actually do let's move to the image quality tests first one sharpness in the middle of the image at the widest aperture we see good sharpness an excellent result comes if we stop down just a bit to F 3.5 let's now go back to the widest aperture and see the corner where sharpness is not okay…
same viewing angle 40 is just a bit tighter in this regard 45 millimeter usm is in the clear advantage as it has stabilization while pancake doesn't it makes a huge advantage for video recording and allows shooting photos down to 1/8 of a second without problems when extra careful I was able to get…
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