[Rover]

Hmmm, pardon silly old me with a general philosophical thought from a very wide pov….


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<p style="font-family:Helvetica;">I had a 1635 once upon a time (not this lens obviously), it was just a tad soft at 35 but, more importantly for me, although the centre rez and exaggerated perspective produced interesting pictures at 16 what always attracted my attention was the, ahem slightly, soft and smeary distorted corners. If you want really wide spectacular pictures, why would you also want soft and smeary corners….Just a thought for the innocent customer putting such a lens on his ff camera to check out in the shop.

Beware! A lot of people would crucify you for that because they call that <b>lens character</b> and say that sharpness is boring (or, to quote more precisely, clinical).