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EF 400mm f/5.6L USM image quality

Started Jul 1, 2021 | Questions thread
rodriguezPhoto
rodriguezPhoto Veteran Member • Posts: 4,238
Re: EF 400mm f/5.6L USM image quality

stillviking wrote:

I really love this lens, much better than todays.

I think that film era lenses like this one are built to appeal to a different aesthetic than today's purely digital lenses are.  Corner to corner sharpness from wide open is the order of the day for lenses these days.  Film era lenses like this one seem to give you the very best they can at center, and not focus too much on perfection at the corners, since film couldn't be guaranteed to be perfectly flat anyway.   To me it just seems to make the output more pleasing.

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