Epic-W Lens Test - Sharpness and Chromatic Aberration

[Evan Butka]

So I got a bunch of lenses together and did a quick test on Helium vs Chromatic Aberration - wow. I'm going to try and do a bigger test later at a rental house with more lenses. Regardless, this shows you need to be careful with CA and older/less quality glass!

 

[Tim Daust]

saw this on Facebook.. oh my gosh.. even though I really like the Otus.. those Xeens continuously impress me when I am not expecting them to. wow.. The sigma art series is seriously the best bang for the buck. Great CA lens test!!!!

 

[Phil Holland]

Also, just saw this on the book of face.

Same reply here:

Top performers in this class wide open are Zeiss Otus, Tokina Cinema Vista, and Sigma in that order. Goes notably downhill from there. Stopped down 2-3 stops should clean up much of this, but you would of course need to light for that.

 

[Brandon Habuda]

Great test! I want to see Sigma 50 art, 85 art, tokina 11-20! Xeens look like a great budget cine set for Helium.

 

[Curtis boggs]

I'm surprised just how close it is, .. but Otus is a clear winner.

However, .. Evan just saved me a bunch of time and money with this test.
I'm curious to see how the Xenons hold up in this test.

I have a set of Xeens that I've been fairly impressed with as long as they aren't shot at 1.5, .. at 2 and above they are very nice
in many cases.

Curtis

 

[Evan Butka]

I'm surprised just how close it is, .. but Otus is a clear winner.

However, .. Evan just saved me a bunch of time and money with this test.
I'm curious to see how the Xenons hold up in this test.

I have a set of Xeens that I've been fairly impressed with as long as they aren't shot at 1.5, .. at 2 and above they are very nice
in many cases.

Curtis

Ha no worries! I'm going to try to do a larger test at a rental house.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Het Evan. What color settings are you using to process the footage? As you know Dragon color2 can really exaggerate the fringing.

 

[Tim Daust]

I cant remember if this was answered on FB...

did you use IPP2 for this?

 

[Evan Butka]

Het Evan. What color settings are you using to process the footage? As you know Dragon color2 can really exaggerate the fringing.

I was using RedWideGamma and L3G10 with IPP2 Lut