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Not good

Started Nov 16, 2021 | User reviews thread
And-roid
And-roid Senior Member • Posts: 3,200
Re: Not good
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Lars wrote:

I had it for two weeks and returned it. My Benchmark is Nikons 14-30 S.

Even after applying the new lens profiles in LR, the Canon 14-35 shows heavy distortion and absolutely terrible CAs. Sharpness is ok, not more. AF and Build quality is good.

I wanted to like it, but this is completely overpriced. The Nikon is better all around at 60% of the price.

Another RF lens letdown after the pretty unremarkable/soft 24-105 L and ridiculously poor STM AF on the 85mm f/2.

Hi,

I just returned a Z 14-30 as I thought the Sony FE 16-35.4 was substantially better, go figure! I was disappointed in the low light capability of the Z7ii -14-30, their seemed to be a lot of reflection (coatings?) going on in some shots and overall I didn't feel it was quality optic either!

I looked at the digital picture site below and I was hoping for a better performance from the RF and I don't want to give up the extra 5mm either of the Sony so that was also a big miss for me with the Nikon. The problem with short optics is on a night swapping lenses with moisture etc it always deters me so I like to fit a lens and stay with it unless I can get somewhere dry and dust free while I swap the lens.

https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=1569&Camera=1508&Sample=0&FLI=5&API=0&LensComp=1402&CameraComp=1212&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=4&APIComp=0

Ironically I was going to show these 2 shots on the Nikon Z forum and ask what went wrong with the wb? Z7ii wb has not impressed me now on several occasions and again it felt like it was all wrong here? look at the Sony color rendition vs Nikon? This was different evenings from different sides of the river, but I can tell you this, Sony and other cameras I have used always get the blue right, maybe it's my lack of Nikon experience but even in raw and Lr, I'm struggling to get the blue of the bridge correct. I was intending to take the Canon R5 over in the next few weeks and shoot it with the new 16mm prime for comparison, will be interesting to see.

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