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Message:: [QUOTE="rmpsrpms, post: 1542039, member: 31773"]Yep, that Zeiss looks like it might be a good lens. I can't tell if the results are relevant or not, as the reviewers didn't even tell us what magnification they were testing at! And to test a macro lens at f16 and go on about its sharpness shows they don't know what they are doing, so the conclusions are all in question. I also found their statement "with all but Zeiss Makro-Planar specifically designed for macro use". Curious they would make this statement, since indeed the MAKRO PLANAR lenses are designed for macro use. Perhaps this was a typo, or perhaps a marketing strategy to push the Zeiss lens? Perhaps they're trying to say "If it's that good as a macro lens and not even designed to be a macro lens, imagine how good it is as a portrait or landscape lens!" Not sure. Bottom line is it's not very useful for coin photography to consider lenses that can't go to 1:1 unless all you care about are Dollars. For some folks that is fine, but my work focuses on Cents and I need around 0.8:1 on APS-C sensor for Cent imaging. If you do Dimes, you need even higher mag. If you shoot full frame, you need even higher. In fact, if you are shooting Cents full frame, you need around 1.2:1. Not a single one of those dedicated macro lenses can do this.[/QUOTE]