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How sharp should the 16-25mm L II be on a 6D body?

Started May 26, 2013 | Discussions thread
Timbukto Veteran Member • Posts: 4,988
Re: How sharp should the 16-25mm L II be on a 6D body?

NomadMark wrote:

Examples of such small sensor cameras?

The 6D is insane good at high ISO, but you might be right. Canon's are a little lack luster in the DR department at lower ISO's...or so it's been reported by other users. I've never fussed about it however.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51531670

The latest Olympus PENS also have good sensors.  I'm just saying if you are shooting narrow aperture shots, smaller camera's can shoot equivalent pictures with wider apertures, etc.

Then it boils down to lens qualities.  IMO the #1 thing to me is having a good copy of whatever UWA lens you have!  For example my 24-105L is a bit soft at 24mm...but that is copy dependent.  This has a bigger factor than anything to me (i.e. making sure you weed out poor copies of lens, etc).

The 14mm Samyang I had was pretty incredible on FF and sharp edge to edge with very low CA!  Mustache distortion easily fixed in LR with downloaded lens profile.  But 14mm on a full frame exceeds my skills of composition at that point.  I would guess it would be fun however to do close-ups and play with the obscene optical distortions you'd get.

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