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Talk me into or out of the RF 50/1.8

Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread
ProDude Senior Member • Posts: 4,851
Re: Surprised the RF 50/1.8 has better IQ than the 24-105L

EOSSpeedLite wrote:

Agreed, and for portraits, the soft corners almost never matter. And if the eye of the model is near one of the orders, and you focus there, that corner will be sharp while the middle soft but that soft middle is not a problem.

I think soft corners only matter if there are several models in the portrait and some of them are near one or more corners, but even then, such a group picture would necessitate F4 or f5.6 or f8 or even f11 which would mitigate soft corners to a convincing degree.

Add to that those that would whine "oh but it has CA or LOCA" and such in the end any competent program like Canon's own or the likes of DXO will immediately remove that as well as any potential vignetting and more. So it's easy to discount a lenses performance based on "the old days" when it either worked of didn't. These days the software alone will compensate very nicely.

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