Walimex pro 35mm f/1.4 - Reviews

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5.12.2014

This lens isn't easy to use for those used to relying on modern autofocus technology: it is completely manual, saving - to judge from the price - considerable money by not having a focussing motor, image stabilisation or any electrics at all. The downsides of this are considerable: you can't just point it at something, half depress the shutter button to focus and then shoot, and the exif data will lack any information about or from the lens - i.e. focal length, distance, aperture, lens make and model (NB - Walimex have now launched a version containing a chip that sends exif data to the camera, which at the time of writing is an insignificant £10 more than this version; it is still completely manual,however). You have to set the aperture on the lens as well and you can't really do that while looking through the viewfinder, although there's nothing wrong with the aperture ring per se - you just can't see the setting without looking at the side of the lens. It's pretty hard to focus accurately without using live view, though ok for landscapes once you've found infinity. So you may find yourself putting the camera on a tripod quite a lot as that makes live view a lot easier to use.But once you get past these issues, the upsides are considerable - first, it's a very fast lens so you can isolate your subject and get some excellent bokeh, although like virtually all lenses it's a bit soft wide open. Second, the image quality is stunning - worthy of far more expensive lenses. It's very sharp, and spectacularly free of chromatic aberration - I was closely examining some photos with very strong contrast recently, and purple/green fringing was insignificant (narrow and very faint) at 100%; it will be completely invisible when you can see anywhere near the whole photo, even on a really big monitor. I'm assuming this is a result of the extraordinary amount of glass they've put in the thing. It's very solidly built, takes a common filter size (77mm) and comes with a lens hood. There's a nice big and fairly stiff focussing ring. On a cropped frame camera, it's a sort of halfway house between wide angle and a standard lens; on a full-frame camera, it's an excellent moderately wide angle, and the image quality is more than good enough for the greater resolution. My only slight quibble with the image quality, in fact, is that the colours are a bit washed out - you may well want to beef them up a bit in processing. But the level of detail you can capture, and the ease of improving the colour saturation, make this a very minor issue.I've marked it down one star for the slightly washed out colours, difficulty of focussing, relatively restricted applications and lack of exif; the size and weight (both remarkable for a 35mm lens) are significant but not enough to bother me for handheld. But if you're using a tripod and have live view, only the exif will really matter and that shouldn't be a deal-breaker. You'll have to go a long way or get very lucky to find another lens with image quality and speed like this anywhere near this price. Basically it's a steal for anyone that wants to spend some time and thought getting a great shot, not so good for spontaneous walk around subjects, sport or most wildlife photography. The speed makes it excellent for applications like shooting musicians in dim lighting, as long as they don't move around too much.