03-04-2014, 11:33 PM
Well, I was pretty happy with the compromises for hiking purposes. But yes, the primes are nice.
One thing I noticed was that the corner softness was mitigated, bizarrely, by distortion correction! Why? well it seems that the FL is quite a bit wider than 24 mm before correction, and when corrected a lot of the original corners are cut off. Perhaps the most extreme bit of corner is as bad, but the zone of bad is smaller. Of course this does mean that you are losing some valuable pixels to cropping when the (HUGE) original distortion is removed.
On another matter, do you have a 55 1.8 for testing? I live in Sydney (near Sydney Uni where I teach) (and Bundanoon) and could part with mine for a little...
One thing I noticed was that the corner softness was mitigated, bizarrely, by distortion correction! Why? well it seems that the FL is quite a bit wider than 24 mm before correction, and when corrected a lot of the original corners are cut off. Perhaps the most extreme bit of corner is as bad, but the zone of bad is smaller. Of course this does mean that you are losing some valuable pixels to cropping when the (HUGE) original distortion is removed.
On another matter, do you have a 55 1.8 for testing? I live in Sydney (near Sydney Uni where I teach) (and Bundanoon) and could part with mine for a little...