Canon 50mm f2.5 › Optical Performance
11 positive · 1 mixed · 7 critical mentions across 19 sources.
how does this lens actually perform when you're taking pictures well when it comes to sharpness really damn good wide open it's not the sharpest bulb in the shed but that's okay because you really wouldn't expect to use this lens wide open often when close up you basically can't even see anything…
at f1.8 there's a reasonable level of sh sharpness but we also see some quite low contrast levels and some ghosting and purple fringing the corners of the image are just a bit worse showing very heavy ghosting stop down to f2.8 for a major Improvement in the corners and excellent sharpness back in…
rather high on contrasting edges stop down just a little to f2.8 and that's reduced and at F4 we get a clean image with perfect sharpness anyway let's open the aperture back up to f2.5 and look over into the corners ouch back in a days of 35 mm film this would have been just about acceptable but on…
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