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Hey Hawk,


Thanks for taking the time to share those test shots. In the first 35mm/1.4 shot, I can see that the angels in the back row are out of the focusing DOF, whereas the angels are more in the DOF range in the 24mm/1.4 cropped version however, I believe that we are now losing contrast between the table cloth and the bricks against the fireplace. I also see less detail in the white snowman table cloth in the 24mm/1.4 cropped version as compared to the 35mm/1.4 Version.


It appears to me that the last one 24mm no crop is the best, with some mild vignetting in the left upper and lower corners.


These shots were taken at 3ft. 4 inches which is very close to the subjects, I believe John would like to use this lens at a more reasonable subject distance of 6.5-7ft. which is essentially doubling the subject distance, which I feel will give significantly different results.


I think it would be interesting to compare some shots at the 7ft. distance with the 35mm/1.4 and then, closer with the 24mm/1.4 in order to achieve the same framing distance, this way we could take cropping out of the equation and we can just focus on DOF, vignetting and barrel distortion. I can't see buying such an expensive lens and then cropping away detail.





Rich
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