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16-50mm Image quality: Broken or normal?

Started Jul 10, 2020 | Photos thread
White Widow Forum Member • Posts: 66
Re: 16-50mm Image quality: Broken or normal?
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To me this looks like there is clearly something wrong with your PZ lens. I once had a similar experience with the 16-50mm lens (it was the S-version) where I noticed many out of focus shots until I investigated further with a few test shots, just like you did. It turned out that my lens was de-centered and needed repair.

You could try to see whether there is a firmware update available for your lens that might somehow magically fix this.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember there was a development setting in the camera (you need a hack to access this) where you can recalibrate a lens, not sure where I have read this and whether this would work on your NX500 - I might be completely wrong about this. Perhaps some other members of this forum could chime in.

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