LensTip.com

Lens review

Panasonic Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45 mm f/2.8 ASPH. M.O.I.S.

25 February 2011
Arkadiusz Olech

7. Coma and astigmatism



Please Support Us

If you enjoy our reviews and articles, and you want us to continue our work please, support our website by donating through PayPal. The funds are going to be used for paying our editorial team, renting servers, and equipping our testing studio; only that way we will be able to continue providing you interesting content for free.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - advertisement - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

In the crops below you can see that coma is one of the reasons of the worse image quality on the very edge of the frame. The diode put in the frame corner is distinctly deformed. What’s more the situation doesn’t change significantly even on stopping down by 1 EV.

Panasonic Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45 mm f/2.8 ASPH. M.O.I.S. - Coma and astigmatism

Astigmatism is less bothersome as its level, understood as the difference between horizontal and vertical MTF50 function values, we determined as less than 6%.