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[quote name='Grummbeerbauer' timestamp='1292480749' post='5039']

While this might be true when shooting brick walls and test charts, it is of course not so much of a problem in real world shooting, especially at wide apertures.

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Which is also my point... who's going to put anything in to that little triangularish corner bits of a frame (as shown in my illustration) ever, especially at f/1.4 or something?





[quote name='Grummbeerbauer' timestamp='1292480749' post='5039']

However, even while being aware of this fact, I can't help but admit that still a lens with soft corners puts me off a bit.

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That's because we've been listening to too many people who don't know how to interpret data for far too long <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />







[quote name='Grummbeerbauer' timestamp='1292480749' post='5039']

but this still leaves the question on how to judge zooms that rock at one end and and suck really hard at the other end of their range?

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I think if Klaus simply renames the Analysis section to "Conclusions" and gets rid of the star rating... this will solve all these problems <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



GTW