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Sorry, but thats kinda bull.

Polishing cost goes up exponentially if you go aspheric.
And cost is proportinal to weigth... and material.

Now there is no magic way to get small and light lenses,...

People have said the SAME crap when the first 1GByte SD card came out...

1.5um pixels are still tiny, so no need for apple to feel smug about their "large pixel", low res camera.

I always wonder about the whole APS 1.8 vs FF 2.8 equivalency:

Are FF sensors as sensitive as APS-C, per mm^2? Because the equivalency only works if they are.

And I am not sure about that,...

The thing is, the cool part of the lens is the 18/1.8 with damn fine quality part. The rest is all bonus - yes, i could crop the center of the image, but going in to 35mm is easier and higher...

Yup. I noticed some issues with the focus too, at times.

Just out of spite I switched to f/2.8 and everything looked perfect. So its not worse than all the other lenses I own, its just that only...

Several reasons: First, you never look straight down when looking out of an airplane window, so you get both more haze as well as inconsistent one (stuff further away is more blue than stuff near...

I am honestly considering one just for the timelapses and stuff (where I don't care about EVF and stuff, and having a mirror is just a huge pain in the ass to begin width, from vibration and...

Yeah. Article was REALLY weak. They had _previews_ that were twice as long before, with more content.

Pretty good, on the second try. The first was also optically awesome, but the AF has a serious issue. I think it got dropped a bit hard during shipping, as the parcel was not really padded...

Before everybody gets crazy about no modern lens being that fast...

All modern cameras use microlens arrays on the sensor. In that case, acceptance of the sensor is limited similar to the way...

My cell phone has a higher resolution. Hell, my LAST cell phone also had. Its one thing to not eversize stuff, but quite another if the image has to be (lossy) upscaled to be viewed fullscreen on...

Sunrise? Early in the morning? Maybe lens in car, cold? That artifacts look exactly like something I had once when I had condensation on the rear element after mounting a cold lens...

The sense of this thing aside (there are smaller cell phones with cameras around) - this thing disqualifies itself by its absolutely abyssmal image quality.

5MP is low to begin with, and the real...

Well, all those shots are basically useless, because they are so damn noisy. Why would anybody shoot at ISO 1600 in broad sunlight? Its impossible to gauge sharpness that way, in particular as...

I actually agree. IS would allow you to pushi exposure times up to 1/10s or longer, but then you will get motion blur with most subjects...

I actually agree. IS would allow you to pushi exposure times up to 1/10s or longer, but then you will get motion blur with most subjects...

The only thing I WOULD use longer exposure times is...

Does ANY review site test for coma? Cause there is no point to sharpness if all your stars become funky shapes...

Actually, those two are NOT different things, as long as you operate in RAW (as the 14bit available are not even remotely used by the native sensor SNR)

Of course, you WILL need to compress the...

Actually, those two are NOT different things, as long as you operate in RAW (as the 14bit available are not even remotely used by the native sensor SNR)

Of course, you WILL need to compress the...