Three different lenses on three different cameras

[Gary R. Smith]

I recently purchased three 35mm lenses, one claiming to be among the cheapest available. I did this because I had picked up a used Nikon FE and subsequently got a used Nikkor 35/2. My hope was to do a lens shoot out. Well, aside from having the film in the Leica for 5 months and realizing that my record keeping just won't do, here are a smattering of results: left Leica with Voigtländer 35/1.4 Nokton (missed focus on the flowers), center Nikon with Nikkor 35/2 and right Sony with Pergear 35/1.4 (cost new = $100 USD). All are manual focus lenses. Obviously if I ever plan to do any sort of REAL shoot out type of review, I need to be more careful and better at documenting what aperture I used on my film shots. The $100 Pergear lens surprised me. I have yet to shoot the Voigtländer on the Sony as I do have an M-to-E adapter.

 

[Beth Anthony]

the nikon seems to have gotten the focus spot on, though i like the color from the pergear better.

 

[Gary Ayala]

What ^she^ said. I'd like to see the same area blown way up for comparisons. Looking at the images, seems the Sony also miss focused if the focus was to be the centered flower.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

All of the lenses are manual focus, so I'm the one who missed focus (not the camera).
Same Fujifilm in both the Leica and Nikon. All photos shot within a 15 minute time span. 2 were shot on a tripod. The Nikon was sitting on the tripod (but not mounted).
I should have kept better notes on what the aperture was since differing depths are in focus in each shot. Maybe I should have included a shot ID# along with a printed aperture?
The three images (reduced to 3000 pixels wide) are here:
"G:\My Drive\Google Drive\Three 35's"