My day jobs have been keeping me busy this year, so for myself I am limited to just a little garden snapping.
The question on my mind is, “can the Spectrum lenses keep pace with the IRIX macro?”.
The IRIX has the dual role of adding a decent tele to my “modern” full frame video kit (35, 50, 85 Lumix) and my more retro cine lens kit (24-m43, 35, 50, 75-crop).
Fine detail is there even at T2.
Different day to the last time I used the IRIX, duller and about to rain.
Some added warmth and punch.
The IRIX in close. Very nice colour in good light, but more than the other lenses?
Bokeh is characterful, but not as smooth at T4.
A cool palette, but close to the actual light and the IRIX. The 35mm is a different story.
My old mate the cob web is sharp and clean and the colours and blurring are excellent.
Actually very good. If not as good as the IRIX, at least comparable with their roles taken into account. The colour does look simpler, less sophisticated, but that may be the light.
Quite different roles.
The IRIX seems to share the deeper, less muted colour of the Panasonic 85mm.
To my eye the sharpness of the three is effectively irrelevant, all falling into the “sharp enough for any video application” pool, but colour is different. I may need to reduce the IRIX down to the level of the others.
The 50mm is cool-muted, the 35 warm-muted and the IRIX neutral-strong/clean. More testing needed and with a little more care.