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OK (but borderline hateful) kit lens

Started 11 months ago | User reviews thread
JustUs7 Senior Member • Posts: 4,327
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Whatever magic they’re doing is more than just a simple crop.  The output in DPP4 shows no sacrifice in megapixels at the 24mm end.  If it were just a crop, it would be less than full resolution.   I don’t know how they do it. But it works.

Someone on this forum was also kind enough to build a lens profile for Affinity Photo and share it on the Lensfun database as well.  Not quite as good as DPP4’s, but good just the same.

I found it humorous the bad press the RF 24-240 received when I discovered that the lens profile for Sony’s 24-240 lens in Affinity worked almost perfectly for the RF as well.  Meaning (to me) that by virtue of Sony being an open format, lens corrections were more readily available.  Therefore people didn’t realize it was just as distorted at the wide end to achieve a 10x zoom.  I never heard the same complaints about the uncorrected files for that lens.

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