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Started Nov 16, 2021 | User reviews thread
KariP
KariP Veteran Member • Posts: 6,450
Re: This is the future. - happpy with 14-35

Peter Kwok wrote:

Steve Balcombe wrote:

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.

We thought alike. Years ago, I wrote somewhere here that things that can be done in software, like distortion & CA, should be offloaded from the optics. Resolution, large aperture, close focus, etc. are inherent in the optics. The only problem of doing this in DSLR is seeing them in the optical VF.

Panasonic started doing it on their m4/3 bodies and nobody complained. I bet all the cell phone cameras do it. CPUs are fast enough to do real-time correction. The 14-35 is the first Canon L lens doing it.

Perhaps I should change the title of this post to "Welcome to the 2010's."

I knew it could be a shock to see the first RAW files taken with this lens. It  was, but after seeing the results it is just great. And yesterday i tried my shoulder bag with three lenses: 14-35 + 24-105 + 70-200f4. All RF lenses . And it was still portable. 2kg more glass could make me carry everything in a backpack. Great quality and light weight is just something!

After some years also the camera bodies will produce same image processing Services as my iPhone. Not sure if that makes me this happy.

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Kari
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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