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Re: How good is the Samsung 16-50mm f/2-2.8 S really?
Grabbe wrote:
Based on the NX1 reviews and the latest firmware news I am interested in this camera. My first lens would be the 16-50mm S. My main concern is that while the 16-50mm lens received mainly positive reviews, several reviewers (e.g. slrgear) noticed chromatic aberrations beyond what comparable lenses show. I have been looking at the Samsung forum from time to time, but this topic was either not discussed or I missed it.
So, what are your experiences? How much sharpness is lost due to the corrections? And in Lightroom, is any manual post-processing necessary to deal with CAs, or do I simply enable the correction?
Thank you very much in advance.
I'm using DXO Optics pro 10 and 16-50S on NX30. There is no profile for this lens but DXO has some automatic correction even if there is no lens profile. With this in mind, I see very little to no abberations. So removing is definitely possible.
Regarding sharpness, is not as sharp as 30mm f2 (sharpest lens samsung made). But is way sharper than e.g. 16mm 2.4.
I think sharpness is not a problem esp. wide open. What I find troubling on occassion is high field curvate on longet focal lenghts. Sometimes even when I stop down to 5.6 to take pciture of some more distant subject (e.g. 100m) at e.g. 40mm, objects away from the center are definitely not in focus even when they're in the similar same distance from me that object in the center.
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