Been playing with lenses mainly as a "de facto" tutorial for a mate who's getting slightly muddled with choices as he enters "dSLR" world. So a little set-up this afternoon, exploring depth of field, closest focus, perspective compression, general quality (sharpness etc). Fringing, flare, vignetting, chromatic aberration, these are things I wasn't particularly testing for but I guess it's all there. No filters on any lenses, no lens hoods, and these are jogs straight off the cameras. All other info in filenames and album description.
Quite good fun and an interesting bit of revision for me. No great surprise that the only dedicated modern macro lens I have, gave the best quality result....but some good and bad surprises along the way too.
Good: my 24mm prime, and 18-135mm, on the Canon, are both decent for this (the bokeh at f/2.8 at close focus on the 24mm is nice enough although you have to be VERY close to the subject)
"Bad": my 100mm f/2 has a large minimum focus distance (not really "bad" as this isn't what that lens is for)
My several shocking attempts on manual focus are just because I was rushing a bit. This was more for illustrating how well (or not) you can have a defocused background with various lenses, rather than creating absolute technical perfection. Just a quick tabletop test.
Hopefully 21 visible pics but Flickr keeps saying some are public and some aren't and I get confused as to what will be viewable...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-straggler/albums/72157719132615848/with/...