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Sharp, nice bokeh -- great lens!

Started Dec 27, 2019 | User reviews thread
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Re: Sharp, nice bokeh -- great lens!

medon78 wrote:

This is the kit-lens for my RP. So far I like it quite a lot - it is sharp already at f/1.8, only getting better when stopped down.

Bokeh is nice, has a little bit of character, but so far I did not in a single shot see something that had to be described as "busy" or wishing me to re-take the shot with different aperture or focusing distance.

Focus is not super-snappy as with USM-lenses, but that's OK with me. It is still plenty fast.

Some testers say, this lens would exhibit extreme vignetting. Well, looking at the example below (far from scientific, true!) I can see a 1.5EV difference in the corners between f/1.8 and f/5.6 in the RAW file. That does not bother me too much, since in-camera correction reduces this even further.

You are comparing different exposures and different ISOs... Optical Limits measured 3.8 EV vignetting, which is pretty extreme. I checked their numbers of other lenses (I do not own the RF 35) in RAW, and their numbers are quite close to mine. DPP measures extreme vignetting as well.

Price: in the kit with an RP or so the lens is reasonably priced. The stand-alone list price of ~500-550 EUR as of late 2019 seems a little high, though.

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