[joachim]

A review should give an indication about the performance of a non-faulty product. Because that's what you expect when you buy such a lens.


Testing a decentered lens (and publishing the results) would be like testing the performance of a car with flat tires.


-- Markus

But if that is the level of Quality the manufacturer deems acceptable to be released "in the wild " it is more than fair to release the results "into the wild" as well.


Klaus has done so with the Pentax 50-200. Perhaps Sony also deserves this treatment. In particular if the trading (non-)culture in the continent with the kangaroos makes it difficult to select good samples.


Slrgear publishes results from lenses that are subpar - they normally comment on it. So you wouldn't be the first ...


At least traditionally - the price differential between an expensive lens brand (e.g. Zeiss) and a not so expensive brand was affected by the quality control - how many lenses of a batch were classed as rejects and distroyed instead if boxed and sold.


Perhaps a better way would be to test a number of each and publish the weakest instead of the best. Can be more work than testing through 3 million rejects before finding a good sample


Enough of brainstorming now.