p.2 #3 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
snapsy wrote:
I can't find the option in the menus. Can you point me to it?
I mean that you can switch off the camera. Bad joke of course, but the underlying thought is serious. I don't like it when a manufacturer knows better what I want than me. Same with software such as MS Word or Outlook, which I hate, with all these stupid and unrelenting autocorrections that are switched on by default. You have to dig deep in the menus and options to switch them off. I am of the opinion that user efforts should be required if you want such 'features', not if you don't want them. If there is no way to switch them off, that would be a good reason for me not to buy the product.
p.2 #4 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
Fred Miranda wrote:
Here is an example @f/6.3 (with 100% crops center and extreme edge. Sharpened in LR: 40, 0.8, 35)
Looks good, and it's a wonderful image, but one side-note is called for. The rocks are fairly monochromatic, which means that chromatic aberrations play a smaller role than with polychromatic subject matter.
p.2 #7 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
I agree that this lens is a little pricey for what it is. But that's the price of admission I guess. I've been happy with mine, but I'd like to also get an f/2 or f/1.4 native 35mm at some point.
p.2 #8 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
From the review, I am surprised that FE35/2.8 exhibits very strong of LCA even at f/5.6! The lens construction of FE35 is very different from other 35mm's. I guess Zeiss was trying to minimize the lens element which decrease the chance of CA correction. It happened on Leica 90 APO also. 90 APO is the least CA corrected APO lens Leica ever made.
p.2 #9 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
phuang3 wrote:
From the review, I am surprised that FE35/2.8 exhibits very strong of LCA even at f/5.6! The lens construction of FE35 is very different from other 35mm's. I guess Zeiss was trying to minimize the lens element which decrease the chance of CA correction. It happened on Leica 90 APO also. 90 APO is the least CA corrected APO lens Leica ever made.
p.2 #11 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
Fred Miranda wrote:
However, it's curious that only Shading Compensation (for color and luminance vignetting) is applied to both JPEG and RAW files when setting correction to "Auto".
that's rather curious indeed, I had it set to auto/auto/off (never bothered to change default settings) because I assumed it would only be applied to jpegs.
Anyway, I was skeptical too about this lens, hoping to have at faster lens for the price. I never intended to buy any FE lenses myself, but during my Osaka trip I gave in because I couldn't hand my camera to a stranger or gf to take a picture.
The lens is tiny, very sharp and lightweight too. To me it's the perfect walkaround lens, great for snapshots when travelling. Picked it up for just over $600 after taxrefund
p.2 #12 · Photozone review: Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
I don't find it odd that Chromatic Aberration Compensation and Distortion Compensation are not applied to the RAW files as I would imagine that would be very computationally intensive to do that type of manipulation on the bayer (non demosaic'd) RAW data. Shading would just have to adjust the luminance of each photo site irrespective of what color the site was sensitive to. Meaning each photo site is adjusted solely based on where it physically sites. The CA and distortion would have to cross photo sites and manipulate them in a very challenging way.
At least that's my guess, I know we have some stellar technical knowledge in quite a few participants in this forum....I would imagine I'll be corrected if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
-Tim
Fred Miranda wrote:
The camera's menu options offer "Shading Compensation", "Chromatic Aberration Compensation" and "Distortion Compensation" which can be set to either 'Off' or 'Auto'.
However, it's curious that only Shading Compensation (for color and luminance vignetting) is applied to both JPEG and RAW files when setting correction to "Auto".
Distortion Compensation and Chromatic Aberration Compensation are only applied to JPEGs. The same goes for Diffraction correction technology and Detail reproduction technology. (JPEG only)
