(replying to Kunzite's post above)
No need to act in a passive aggressive way, no one's attacking. It was an entertaining read, which may explain why the 43 was found rather lackluster on both attempts here in the Zone, (and that was even on APS-C, not FF!), as it was designed against the triple constraint of aperture, price and size. There's no free lunch...
I still find things like requiring the hood to be built-in "for the lens to be always ready" inexplicable. Unless I'm talking about a tele lens with a deep hood, I'm pretty much always keeping hoods on and in the "correct" orientation, and it never gets in the way of anything. How much of a pain are these built-in hoods for using filters?
No need to act in a passive aggressive way, no one's attacking. It was an entertaining read, which may explain why the 43 was found rather lackluster on both attempts here in the Zone, (and that was even on APS-C, not FF!), as it was designed against the triple constraint of aperture, price and size. There's no free lunch...
I still find things like requiring the hood to be built-in "for the lens to be always ready" inexplicable. Unless I'm talking about a tele lens with a deep hood, I'm pretty much always keeping hoods on and in the "correct" orientation, and it never gets in the way of anything. How much of a pain are these built-in hoods for using filters?