I am just planning my next lens for P40 kit. I was hoping to only buy the new LS lenses, but right now i need a lens around 120mm macro style. Was thinking about the 110mm LS, but noticed the min focus distance is not that close.Any idea if there are plans to produce a macro LS lens? otherwise i think i'm heading for the old 120 macro....
Which isn't to say that respected lens manufacturer's won't provide lenses for all kinds of cameras. I've seen plenty of little crappy point and shoots with Zeiss splashed across the lens barrel. Hard to say how good a lens it was. But the pricing is probably appropriate to most all situations, whether it's a $115 Kodak digicam or a $3,400 LS Lens for a Phase One DF camera.Steve Hendrix
Indeed. I found it excruciatingly hard to compare wide open performance for real-world items (e.g. not a test chart) because at f/2.8 the critical DOF is just so freaking small and the only thing that's going to vary in a meaningful way is the corners since the center performance of the 80mm D f/2.8 is very sharp (80mm D corner performance is excellent all-things-considered, but falls off enough that in theory it could be improved). I personally ran a test over Christmas weekend and despite very careful technique, over-sized tripod, tethered capture to a 30" monitor I could not produce (in my two hour slot I had that night) two shots which matched focused on all four corners and center between the two lenses. Literally a mm of subject movement, a difference in focus distance of a mm, a fraction of a degree of rotation, meant enough of a difference to make direct comparison irrelevant. Also there was a difference in the renderings of both in and out of focus elements such that even equally sharp parts of the image looked slightly different....
Would macro extension tubes + Schneider 110mm work for you?
