It\'s unfair to compare edge performance of a normal lens against a tilt-shift wide open: the TS lens draws a much larger image circle, and so you are not really looking at its \"edge\".
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how is that unfair? it is what it is and that is a larger image circle lens and if you buy it you DON\'T have to use it shifted. Reality is what it is, if you buy it you can use it well centered within what it can do.
the nikon 14-24 is what it is and it does not have that larger image circle projection.
you might as well say any comparison is unfair because this lens has that coating and that lens does that, etc.
Fair enough.
However, my point is that sharp corners unshifted are not proof points for the superiority of a TS-E lens. This characteristic may make it better for a given application, but to say it is superior in absolute terms you would have to see the *actual* corners (e.g., the outer edge of the image circle). If soft, then the lens is not superior when used for it intended purpose (shifted).
Jul 04, 2009 at 12:27 AM
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