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Panasonic 12-35mm 2.8 disappointment

Started Nov 27, 2016 | Discussions thread
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akjos
akjos Veteran Member • Posts: 4,595
Panasonic 12-35mm 2.8 disappointment

I loved this lens untill today when i started playing with raw files.  Panasonic bodies( have g7 now) seem to pull some real magic when shooting jpgs. Distortion correction, vignetting , diffraction correction CA etc.

Jpgs fine tuned to taste with all this on look great.

Shooting raw at 12mm from f2.8 -f8 i was really unpleasantly surprised by CA at 2.8 especially close to edges on the sides and what really baffed me was horrible vignetting that didn't disappear no matter how stopped down the lens was.  Snapshot of my laptop screen... :/

It almost looks like someone mounted DX lens on FX body😐

Im testing on1 raw now as a long time on1 suite user. It is slow and buggy ...hopefully since its pre release they will iron the kinks out. But they had months... now release is due in 10 or 14 days... so idk.

Also for raw developer tool... there is no CA vignetting or distortion correction tool? What the xxxx ?!?

I hope i just didnt waste 79 bucks. Its not that much money but still. I was excited to finally send LR packing as i never warmed up to it and always ended up in photoshop anyway.( with on1 plug-in and nik suite)

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7
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