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Will the in-lens or in-camera software distortion-correction cause loose of resolution? I notice that all (?) Panasonic and Olympus lense correct distortion this way but I don't know if this is good or not. But on the other hand I don't know if the traditional optical distortion-correction in lens design has also some effects on resolution.
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08-07-2012, 10:29 AM
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Ouch. And yes, you probably lose a bit of AOV and resolution along the edges where the image is stretched. But still, if I ever switch to Nikon I'll probably be getting this lens as a standard. I'm using a Canon 24-85 (not stabilized, of course) currently.
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SLRGear has tested this lens (on D800 and D7000):
http://slrgear.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/1526/cat/13
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SLRGear has tested this lens (on D800 and D7000):
[url="http://slrgear.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/1526/cat/13"]http://slrgear.com/r...uct/1526/cat/13[/url]
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Thanks for sharing... With regard to D800 review, it makes me wonder how come the 85mm and 70mm results could be better that the 50mm (@widest aperture setting). Isn't that odd...
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08-20-2012, 03:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2012, 03:45 PM by Rover.)
[quote name='PuxaVida' timestamp='1345013452' post='19788']
Thanks for sharing... With regard to D800 review, it makes me wonder how come the 85mm and 70mm results could be better that the 50mm (@widest aperture setting). Isn't that odd...
Serkan
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Who knows, maybe the lens was deliberately optimized to give up some ground in midrange and then rally again towards the max. focal length. Makes sense to me (if that's possible of course).
FWIW I wouldn't call the results at 70mm really better than those at 50mm.
Reviewed at lenstip. Does not seem good.