My sharpness and bokeh tests: lots of vintage lenses added!

[Samuel H]

With the help of fellow Spaniard DSLR shooter and deep lensaholic, Ignacio Sánchez (check out here and here his recent test of a Zeiss Tessar from ca 1902), I've added a bunch of vintage lenses to my sharpness and bokeh tests

Now I have results for lots of vintage lenses from Leitz, Carl Zeiss Jena, Nikkor (we started with the weird lenses, like the PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.5 - the regular ones will be tested too, at some point), Rollei, MIR, Helios, and Pentacon, together with some popular modern glass by Canon, Tamron and Tokina

Results:
* Sharpness in stills mode
* Sharpness in video mode
* Bokeh

General conclusion: stop worrying and buy Leitz

Detailed conclusions:
http://www.similaar.com/foto/lenstests/lenstestsb.html

 

[kostas]

General conclusion: stop worrying and buy Leitz
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Ha ha! I like this.
Gimme the cash and I'll buy Leitz anytime

 

[Samuel H]

well, that's a fair pont, but... my Leitz set (35mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.4, 90mm f/2.8, 135mm f/2.8, 180mm f/2.8) cost me a total of 1400 eur, which is, coincidentally enough, exactly the price on this side of the pond of the canon 50mm f/1.2L (I'd love to throw such kind of glass against the chart -not literally- but I'm afraid the closest I'll get to that is the vintage nikkor 50mm f/1.2 that Ignacio has)