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Are we giving it too much credit? The lowly kit Nikor 18-105mm VR lens beats it hands down.....
and it's for peanuts!
(execpt F4 mid tele up)
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Well, the test was done on 24mp ... where the Nikkor was tested on 16mp.
I just finished the next Canon lab tests and the difference between 21mp and 50mp is ... well ... obvious.
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We have several lenses in this range the Nikon 18-105, Canon 18-135 and its three variants and Sony.
My wild guess from what I have seen on the build quality side it's Sony-Nikon-Canon, however optically speaking it is Canon -Nikon- Sony of course we are speaking about the STM or USM variants of the Canon lens.
Am I right ?
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11-15-2016, 02:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-15-2016, 02:26 PM by stoppingdown.)
I also do landscape with very long lenses. Actually, the only limit to me is atmospheric blur. 300/400mm in APS-C mode are generally fine, something longer can work depending on the subject distance and blur.
PS I think email notifications are out of order again?
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Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
@ toni-a ..... i can confirm
The first thing I did after reading. I took my Canon 18-135 3.5-5.6 IS (first version) ... bought seven years ago with my first DSLR Kit Canon D550 from the shelf. Put a cheap EOS-NEX adapter on NEX-6 .... and tested.
Works fine, fine fine. Manual focussing nails shots precisely. IS works, EXIFs were saved correctly. Lightroom finds lens profile. Image IQ ..... I would not expect too much buying this Sony E 18-105 F4 G OSS (except AF);
Klaus, thanks you for this review!
Can I quickly ask, on behalf of someone else who is having issues posting, are the sharpness results for this lens with or without corrections applied?
Thanks
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01-12-2017, 07:24 AM
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Without. Please note that distortion correction TENDS to decrease the MTFs.
CA correction has a limited, positive influence beyond 3px.