16/2.8 on-line review, 7 sample images, and 100% crops

[chris_at_vividoptic.com]

<p>Hello fellow Minoltians</p>

<p>I have just uploaded my first lens review to MaxxumEyes:  <a

href="http://www.maxxumeyes.com/Wide/16mmRev.htm"

target="_blank">M</a><a

href="http://www.maxxumeyes.com/Wide/16mmRev.htm"

target="_blank">axxumEyes.com/Wide/16mmRev.htm</a>

</p>

<p>The review contains 5 sample images with 4 100% crops for each

shot, plus a

sample of flare and bokeh.  And, oh, a few brief words on what i

think of

it.  And I've also put the important bits of the EXIF on there. 

Reviewed with the Dynax 7D</p>

<p>More lens reviews to follow throughout Jan/Feb.  All the ones

with the

very light blue [R] link from the homepage <a

href="http://www.maxxumeyes.com/index.htm" target="_blank">M</a><a

href="http://www.maxxumeyes.com/index.htm"

target="_blank">axxumEyes.com</a>

are in draft.</p>

<p>Enjoy, feedback on the layout/usefulness most welcome, the image

below will

click you into the site</p>

<p><a href="http://www.maxxumeyes.com/Wide/16mmRev.htm"

target="_blank"><img border="0"

src="http://www.maxxumeyes.com/Wide/07238-BuildEve.jpg" width="600"

height="400"></a></p>

<p>[dcap]</p>

[ivan_dzo]

Chris, thanks for link and review. I have a couple of problems though. Firstly the choice of subjects at night means it's very hard to see how good a lens it is. Secondly, your 100% crops really should be one from the centre, one from an edge and one from a corner. They mainly seem to be fairly central so we have little idea of corner sharpness and distortion. I've got the manual version of this lens, which is incredible but fairly poor in the corners. One hell of a difficult lens to use compositionally :-)