Olympus 12-60mm Zuiko (Part 4 of Leica Lens Test)
Olympus 12-60mm Zuiko
Making comparisons.
What I’ve done is organise a few setup shots with all 3 lenses to measure the differences between each and with:
- Minimum aperture for each lens
- f16 selected between all 3 lenses
- f22 for making comparisons to f16
What I am going to do then is measure bokeh with minimum apertures and lens sharpness equally at f16 and just out of interest at f22 to see the difference. This excludes the Leica lens as it is limited to f16 but it will be interesting to see what the other lenses can do. The minimum focusing distance was something I thought was interesting and have taken some pictures to show that between the three lenses. The images will be unprocessed from best quality RAW, using Lightroom 2 for exporting the RAW files to full quality jpegs. I’ve shot at ISO 100 as well. PLEASE NOTE, these are full size quality jpegs!
Focusing with the 12-60mm Zuiko
I’ve set up these series of images so each focus point has something of interest at different distances to each other, the Olympus has three focus points. I have a Cactus on the left, Yellow Pages in the distance in the center and my Optimus Prime Transformer on the right as the primary subjects of interest. Everything else in the image will act as a guide to help you make your own judgements, for example behind the Yellow pages is a foldable washing line (to judge image sharpness with lower apertures and to see how much difference Bokeh makes) also on the table is some literature with text reading away from the camera.
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- Max Aperture f3.4
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- Max Aperture f3.4
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- Max Aperture f3.4
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- f16 sharpness
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- f16 sharpness
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- f16 sharpness
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- f22 sharpness
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- f22 sharpness
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- f22 sharpness
If you can’t tell where I have focused, I’ve started first on the Cactus Pot, then the Yellow Pages and then Optimus Primes’ left leg, read the images from left to right for all examples given.
