OK (but borderline hateful) kit lens

m100 wrote:

KEG wrote:

sportyaccordy wrote:

KEG wrote:

sportyaccordy wrote:

KEG wrote:

sportyaccordy wrote:

KEG wrote:

Canon knows that optimizing for cornersharpness is optimizing for something which almost never happens in real life

Yea landscape photography is def not a thing

Just one question, you personally bring a ladder to your landscape shots? I am 180 cm or about 5ft11" and I have a near constant experience of whatever is in the corners being out of focus due to the near limit of DOF and that is primarily because the ground in front of me is not flat and not sloping away from me.

Don't know what kind of landscapes you shoot but I generally shoot landscapes with DoF as deep as possible. Whether the ground slopes is irrelevant. Stuff like mountains and trees are high off the ground

Could you kindly post a landscape where the corners mattered?

I can't.... you have decided that corners don't matter to everybody, so no such picture exists.

that is not what I am claiming, I am contending that due to us living in a 3D space there is a high likelihood that there is something in the corners closer than the near limit when shooting outside at normal human height.

Those things won't ever be in focus due to physics regardless if you are using $3000 L lens or not.

Some people get on top of the car ?

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/feb/16/behind-lens-when-photos-require-higher-perspective/

https://aows.co/blog/in-defense-of-car-photography

The reason to shoot from the top of the car (or other high spot) generally would have more to do with perspective and not so much about DOF.

Although I'm of the opinion that corner sharpness matters more on wide an ultra-wide lenses than normal or tele lenses, the reality is that pixel peepers like those here (and I'll include myself in the group) obsess about such stuff way too much.

I'd love to run a little experiment. Take one of the sharpest wide lenses available. Take a very technically correct landscape shot where the corners come out very good and in focus. Now print that shot fairly large and then take the file, blur the corners slightly, and print that at the same size. Grab 100 people off the street and ask them if they see any difference in the 2 photos. I'd bet 99 of them wouldn't notice.