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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomO2013" data-source="post: 206959" data-attributes="member: 6330">I prefer the 55 1.8 the most personally too. It's as close to optically perfect as you can get this side of an Otus. Sometimes (like the Otus as well) it can be a little 'too' optically perfect. This is something that I have also said of my Oly 75 1.8. But it's easy to play around in LR and add some vignetting back in<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> For that reason alone the Zeiss 55 1.8 get's my vote.However, I'm a little surprised at the Summicron results - I would have expected them to be a LOT smoother. Particularly the Summicron F2 version 4 is often affectionately referred to as 'the bokeh king'. There is no arguing with your images though. I'd have loved to see the Summicron also shot at F2; in your sample it is at F2.8. I wonder if there is a big discrepancy in OOF between F2 and F2.8 on this lens. Certainly at F2.8 it looks very harsh.The Voigtlander results (obviously at a different field of view making it harder to directly compare) is an interesting result. To be honest, I would have expected to see the reverse of what you found between the Leica and Voigtlander. I would have expected the Voigty to be slightly busier and harsher in the OOF. The Foveon is a lovely image too (my second favourite) - but it also looks to have a very different field of view to the other shots making it hard to directly compare bokeh.</blockquote>

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