85mm performs just like the other Veydras, so much so it’s downright boring. And that’s a good thing.
The lens captures a crisp, contrasty image with no noticeable lateral chromatic aberration. The image is flat as a pancake: I couldn’t see any distortion at all, not so much as a single pixel’s deviation in a straight line running along the edge of the picture.
The sweet spot for the 85mm is from T2.8 to T5.6, where its images are razor-sharp. At T2.2 the image is softer, if only slightly; as you close it down to T8 and below diffraction takes its toll.
http://www.dvinfo.net/article/acquisition/first-look-veydra-85mm-t2-2-mini-prime.html
Veydra’s lenses definitely score higher than the competition for build and professional features. Optically, in the main, the lenses live up to expectations. All but the 25mm are a little soft wide open, with the 50mm and the 12mm the worst offenders. The 25mm is remarkably good at T2.2 – it’s center resolution only starts to fall off with diffraction at smaller apertures. The other lenses all peak in performance around T5.6, with edges softer than center for the 25mm, 16mm and 12mm. These lenses have image circles that only cover the Four Thirds sensor, whilst the 50mm and 35mm will (just) cover S35. We took measurements on a MFT camera, so these edge results are not surprising. Diffraction limits the resolution of all these lenses on MFT cameras from T11.
http://www.definitionmagazine.com/journal/2015/12/1/review-veydra-mft-prime-lenses
as a leading small manufacturer of things people need, we sometimes get the trend too early. We jumped on one such early trend with the 4K anamorphic shooting modes found in cameras like the Panasonic GH4 when we announced the Veydra 2X Mini Anamorphic Project last spring at NAB Show 2015. We did in fact spend a fair amount of money and months of design and prototype efforts in 2015 on the 2X Mini Anamorphic. We found that our high quality standards and risk of manufacturing this specialty lens would cause many problems in delivering the best quality product. We therefore announce that we have discontinued the 2X Mini Anamorphic project.
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85mm T2.2 tests
Comparison to Zeiss CP.2
50mm T2.2 Lens Tests
The largest collection of Veydra sample footage online all in one spot.
https://jonpais.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/veydra-mini-primes-the-nearly-complete-collection/
Does anyone have any info regarding the Meike Lenses being replicas (or the same glass) as the Veydras? Are made from the same factory that used to make the Veydras?
Yes.
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