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Decent lens, but far from perfect...

Started Dec 15, 2017 | User reviews thread
Vic Chapman Forum Pro • Posts: 10,694
Re: Decent lens, but far from perfect...

alfaholic wrote:

I would be grateful if you could look at my RAF files, please tell my what kind of photos do you want me to make, and where to send the files.

Although I agree that the 18-55 is not ultra sharp, I feel it is as good or better than the best of its type. I'm surprised that you mention distortion and especially the lack of software correction in which you favour instead of optical correction. Surely this runs counter to what every right minded photographer would prefer.

I have not owned the 35mm f2, I prefer the 35mm f1.4 (which has its own peculiarities). However, from recent posts I've viewed, it has good sharpness even at fairly close quarters (food photography). https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/60509549

When you say close focus - were both Nikon and Fuji 35mm lenses shot at the same distance - or simply the closest focus for each lens?

Have you posted some Raw files we can look at and process? Try Dropbox maybe leaving a link here and also post some some full size jpgs of raws which displease you.

Vic

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