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Sigma 20mm 1.4 ART vs canon 16-35 2.8 III

Started Sep 30, 2017 | Discussions thread
Abu Mahendra Veteran Member • Posts: 5,312
Re: Sigma 20mm 1.4 ART vs canon 16-35 2.8 III

Deorum wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

Deorum wrote:

ed rader wrote:

silly comparison. silly that anyone cares about charts these days when all of the best lenses are "perfect"

That is why i ask, you think that all these new lenses are already so good that they've reached a plataeu, and IQ differences are miniscule?

There are a whole lot of other factors that affect IQ. That's why sites such as lenstip and photozone use so much space to talk about distortion, bokeh quality, coma, astigmatism, flare etc. There's also colour rendering, contrast and microcontrast which don't get talked about so much as they're harder to measure or illustrate consistently.

These are my thoughts and i wanted to hear other people's thoughts.
I cannot believe that the best quality-prime, will produce the same image with the best quality zoom.
Yes, that is for shooting daylight landscapes, lets say @ f5.6-f8.

These tests seem to indicate that the lenses are more or less the same, smth that seems counterintuitive to me.

Look, the reality these days is that the top zoom lenses are exceedingly good, approaching, and in some instances, surpassing prime lenses (e.g. 24-70LII vs 24/2.8IS). You are not going to appreciable differences in resolving power at f/5.6 and beyond.

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