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35mm lens poll.

Started Aug 28, 2015 | Polls thread
OP Great Bustard Forum Pro • Posts: 45,641
Re: "Rubbish AF"

J A C S wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

I wish reviewers did more in depth tests on AF. As things stand, we just have results from an artificial test, and the reports from dissatisfied people, whose dissatisfaction can range from unrealistic expectations to user error to bad copies. If DPR has taught me one thing, it's that user opinions need to be taken with a grain of salt more often than not.

Call me cynical, but I trust user opinions more than professional reviews. User reviews are based on a huge data set that professional reviewers cannot have. You need to average a lot of them to clean up the noise but the end result is worth it.

I've seen too many opinions which, when finally supported with a photo, told the exact opposite.  Examples:

  • Such-and-such lens is tack sharp!
  • Such-and-such lens (or FF) has soft corners (corners were outside the DOF)
  • Such-and-such lens is soft (missed focus)
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  • .
  • .

I saw one the other say praising the DR of this or that sensor, and a huge portion of the photo was blown.  Here's one of my favorites (he's deleted the pics).  He shows a photo from an XZ1 compact and compares it to an OOF photo from a 5D2, and, well...

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