12-21-2019, 06:14 PM
I'm genuinely surprised by that response. What part of the lens sounds "yucky"? The review states:
- "the native distortion characteristic is actually pretty decent with a barrel distortion of just ~1%."
- "The resolution characteristic of the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 STM IS macro is impressive"
- "Lateral CA (color shadows at the image borders) stay just below an average pixel width of 1px at the image borders. This is usually neglible"
- "If you decide to buy a fast prime lens, you also do so for superior bokeh compared to the zoom lenses. And the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 STM IS macro doesn't disappoint us here"
- "The background blur (shown to the left) is especially silky"
The two main failings are vignetting and swirly/cat's eye bokeh (which is fixed by f2.8), which will be unavoidable in a Full-Frame Mirrorless lens of this size. Is it build quality then? It's a $449 FF lens, something has to give.
- "the native distortion characteristic is actually pretty decent with a barrel distortion of just ~1%."
- "The resolution characteristic of the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 STM IS macro is impressive"
- "Lateral CA (color shadows at the image borders) stay just below an average pixel width of 1px at the image borders. This is usually neglible"
- "If you decide to buy a fast prime lens, you also do so for superior bokeh compared to the zoom lenses. And the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 STM IS macro doesn't disappoint us here"
- "The background blur (shown to the left) is especially silky"
The two main failings are vignetting and swirly/cat's eye bokeh (which is fixed by f2.8), which will be unavoidable in a Full-Frame Mirrorless lens of this size. Is it build quality then? It's a $449 FF lens, something has to give.