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Decent lens, but far from perfect...

Started Dec 15, 2017 | User reviews thread
alfaholic
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Re: Decent lens, but far from perfect...
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You are right, I am talking about lens resolution, not about sharpness in post processing stage.

The size of this text is 12, it is a regular size for most books. The book was around 60 centimeters from the lens, but I can make another example if you want to see.

What I am trying to say is that this lens does not have good resolution no matter what you have in front of you while testing and how far from it you place the camera. JPEGs are relatively good because they are processed and sharpened, and if you ask me whether this lens resolution can be fixed by sharpening in the software, then yes it can to some extent, but still it is not what would I call sharp/detailed/good resolution, and if you ask me it is always better to have a lens with good resolution to start with.

And it is very simple, Sigma 17-50 f2.8 has much better resolution wide open than this lens, it can catch details that simply can not be seen on this lens. Maybe that sounds harsh to you, and maybe you find it offensive, but my tests showed that.

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