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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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I had 4 copies of both lenses in the store, tested them all together, there is no difference. Those lenses are the way they are. This was the first I checked, my friend owns the store so he gave me all lenses he had at the moment there, and we tested all of them.

There is no workflow problem because there is no workflow at the first place. Put the camera on a tripod, turn on countdown timer, turn off OIS, focus, do not breath, repeat the same two more times if maybe something wen wrong with the tripod legs, and that is it. In all my tests those lenses were softer than Sigma 17-50 f2.8.

This is taken from 3 meter distance, both cameras on a tripod, OIS off, countdown timer 2 seconds. The only difference was metering so Nikon measured the whole scene while Fuji measured only center of the frame.

Am I crazy, or there is some hidden details in this RAF file?

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