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NX200 problem - camera or lens?

Started Apr 29, 2015 | Questions thread
Coldamus Senior Member • Posts: 2,281
Re: NX200 problem - camera or lens?

link gaetz wrote:

It's not just you. Here's a sample OOC jpg on a fairly clear day at 52mm, f/5.6, 1/160s @ ISO 100. It's a blurry mess and no amount of editing the raw can fix it. You can blame turbulence or something since it's a fairly distant shot but the closer shots I took the same day at ~50mm look like garbage too. It's making me think about getting the 16-50PZ or the Rokinon 12mm and just taking those + 30mm + 45 or 50-200.

Well, it was taken with the lens wide open which wouldn't have helped the depth of field.  Still, everything is far enough away that one wouldn't expect that to matter.   In any case, the shutter speed of 1/160 indicates the light wasn't too good, so you wouldn't have had much choice other than to up the iso.  Even the hill or peak in the left foreground is not sharp but the one in the right background is worse still.  I have to assume it is a bad lens.

I haven't used my 18-55 much for landscapes but it doesn't seem as bad.  Here is one at 55mm and f/6.3.  This is an ooc jpeg from an NX10.  I'm not sure what I focused on but the windmill and concrete tank in the middle distance just left of centre seem reasonably sharp.  The trees on the horizon are not great but fair enough for a kit lens.  I took another shot at 18mm from the same spot and it is slightly sharper.

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