So I finally took my 40mm out and did some real world shooting. Fuck, the thing soft focuses like a mofo. If you aren't really paying attention to the focus the thing will get pretty funky. Also it has an issue with multiple focus points in that it will often fuck up on the near focus (soft focusing usually) then focus back into the distance and gain a focus point there, even if the center of the focus group is in the foreground. Really frustrating.
When it works though it works really really well, it's crisp as fuck when it focuses right, it's still fast at 2.8 (though I miss my 1.8 50mm still), and at 4.0-5.6 it's pretty dang nice.
But yea, it was fun.
Would post more, but it was mostly shooting a friend for fun.
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