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Reappraisal of the Pan 12-60 F3.5-5.6

Started Apr 7, 2020 | Discussions thread
AdamT
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Re: Reappraisal of the Pan 12-60 F3.5-5.6

These corrections are stored in the exif file so that most commercial softwares, like lightroom or D-XO apply them by default.

This is one reason why I never use these conveters, you can`t turn it off so you get the full correction complete with detail destroying stretching and CA removal ... Choosing what to do and by how much yourself gives you the flexibility of maximizing image quality, especially the wide end of this lens which is fine uncorrected for a lot of scenes, the 12-32 gains some useful wide on top if you don`t mind the distortion

leaves some distortion at the wide end. the 14-140 is better than one can expect from a 10X zoom, sharp at the wide end at usual viewing size like a 55" OLED TV screen or a A4 print, but some softness above 70mm which is easy to see when pixel peeping.

From experience of superzoom lenses, the F3.5 start 14-140 was the best of its kind regardless of system until the arrival of the Oly 12-100 Pro .......... I never tested the old Fourthirds  PL 14-140 though , never saw one for sale .

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