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OK (but borderline hateful) kit lens

Started 11 months ago | User reviews thread
tkbslc Forum Pro • Posts: 17,522
Re: Design parameter, not a flaw
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Klaus dk wrote:

The design of this lens — and of the RF 16/2.8 and the RF 24-240/4-6.3 lenses — was based on a combination of optical and digital correction.

The results are affordable lenses that would be much heavier and more expensive if the corrections were attempted in the optical domain only.

I don't know, they had a 375g 28-105 f3.5-4.5 in 1992 with ring USM. Hard to call this lens progress after almost 30 years.

I think it's a strange base for a review to disregard half the virtues of the object one is reviewing.

I'd say it's a flaw because the results are subpar. You can discount the methods used, but not the results.  If it's designed to be bad at 24mm then that is a flaw.

One could argue it is not a flaw on the 14-35 or 24-240 because the end results are good.

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