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Started Nov 16, 2021 | User reviews thread
KariP
KariP Veteran Member • Posts: 6,450
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Steve Balcombe wrote:

KariP wrote:

Peter Kwok wrote:

Shot at 14mm 1/80 sec F8 iso200 Process by Lightroom Classic

On the left has no processing except correction per lens profile from Adobe. I scale it down to 88% to show how the corners are stretched back to correct for the severe barrel distortion.

On the right is the final processed version. I corrected for some but not all the vertical perspective, darken the sky and increase red & orange saturation.

Before and after with Lightroom

100% crop of lower right edge Shot with R5

100% crop of lower right corner

Weather around here did not help me to make a test ... But your images confirm my experiences with the lens. Barrel distortion and mechanically blocked corners + vignetting look terrible in a RAW file. Results can/will after some corrections be just fine.

The same "problem" is visible when i used RF 24-105STM and in tests i have seen something similar with RF24-240. Obviously "new normal" in Canon lenses.

Modern times...

I wish I could find the posts where I predicted this, ten years ago or more. On the whole I think it's a good thing if it means smaller, lighter lenses*. The only problem it creates is the absolute necessity to have a lens profile compatible with the software you want to use.

*Cheaper too, but the RF 14-35 is not a great example of that!

In real life the behaviour of this lens is not very problematic - 14mm just looks like strange with black corners if i look at the RAW file without corrections..

Rain stopped and i went out just after sunset. IMO the images look quite sharp and contrasty - no real issues.

Two versions

The other one made with DPP and the other with CaptureOne.

DPP could remove the unnecessary parts (black corners)

CO

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I started SLR film photography in 1968. Now two systems: Fujifilm X-H1 + X-E3 and Canon FF gear 5dMkIV + R6

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