Title: Nice lens, but soft at f/1.4
Product review: This lens generally gets good reviews, so maybe I got a bad copy. It was pretty soft at f/1.4 and not much better at f/2. But from f/2.8-16, it's amazing. Very sharp and contrasty. But it does have other positives. It will just about fit in your pocket and is fast enough to shoot in low light. Build guality is very good-much better than those zoom "kit" lenses. And it's inexpensive for a f/1.4 lens. The 85mm f/1.4 costs 3 times as much. So does the 28mm f/1.4 With the 1.5X crop factor of digital, it's like having a 75mm on a film camera. So it becomes a short telephoto instead of a standard lens. Which makes it good for sports and portraits.
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