This lens seems to make a good case for leaving primes at home if you are doing stop down style shooting and don’t need any sort of specific look eg sun stars. Although I’m sure that this lens could do that too at f/16-f/22.
GMPhotography wrote:
Fred at 24mm after the lens profile correction are you still seeing vignetting which looks like a hard vignette. The Big Bronco test I can see it in top right corner.
I agree no real bad focal lengths but 28 and 50 looked like it did not need stopping down. Now all that may change with different copies.
I am curious if everyone is seeing this hard vignette at 24mm with the lens profile applied.
I don't see much vignetting after the correction using the Lightroom profile. (It could be that CaptureOne's profile does not correct vignetting all the way)
GMPhotography wrote:
That’s very possible since it’s a manufactured profile not a specific one. I’m wondering also about uncorrected. Why my right side is worse.
The Lightroom profile made for this lens is way better Guy. However, vignetting amount varies depending on the corner. I've seen this with many of my lenses. It's part of the lovely 'copy variation'.
GMPhotography wrote:
That’s very possible since it’s a manufactured profile not a specific one. I’m wondering also about uncorrected. Why my right side is worse.
Guy, mine is pretty similar to yours. Here's 24mm f/4:
Fred, you're posting the upper-left corner in the crops but I assume you've been reviewing the lower-right corner as well as you look through each image you post to verify the copy is well centered?
snapsy wrote:
Fred, you're posting the upper-left corner in the crops but I assume you've been reviewing the lower-right corner as well as you look through each image you post to verify the copy is well centered?
Of course, like I wrote in the beginning, the lens is well centered, so, I expect very similar performance for all 4 corners.
Whenever I get a bad copy, which happens a lot, I don't even bother posting any crops. Only at the long end, it's very slightly tilted on one axis. The tilt is so small that f/5.6 makes all corners look equal and wide open things are still very similar.
Looks like a great travel and landscape lens and appears to be better than the cheaper Canon equivalent. Well done Sony. I may, just may sell the 24-70/2.8 for this.
Edit: And well done Fred for posting this comparison. Thank you!
Has anyone seen a comparison vs the 24-70mm GM? I've heard mixed things about whether it performs as well. Especially curious about performance at 105mm f4 vs 70mm f2.8.
I have to say as a travel or general use lens this looks like a killer zoom though I have to say that I definitely prefer the bokeh and OOF rendering from my GM. If I could afford it I would probably get one just for a lighter travel option where I could see that this lens along with the 14-24 and say the FE55 for low light work would be probably all that most people need
AlphaPhotography wrote:
Has anyone seen a comparison vs the 24-70mm GM? I've heard mixed things about whether it performs as well. Especially curious about performance at 105mm f4 vs 70mm f2.8.
I did the following comparison of my 24-70 GM and my 24-105 G. I did not post the crops for the 105mm but on my copy the 24-105 G at 70mm to 105mm is very good and at 70mm it is noticably better than the GM at f/4-f/11 across the frame from center to the extreme corners.Test of 24-105G v 24-70GM
Chuck Coyne wrote:
I did the following comparison of my 24-70 GM and my 24-105 G. I did not post the crops for the 105mm but on my copy the 24-105 G at 70mm to 105mm is very good and at 70mm it is noticably better than the GM at f/4-f/11 across the frame from center to the extreme corners.Test of 24-105G v 24-70GM
Thanks for posting that comparison. I'm looking at the GM trade-off, too. If this lens had been available I wouldn't have bought the 24-70GM. I have really enjoyed the GM, but for my needs I don't need f2.8 at the wide end (where I'm usually looking for more depth of field for landscapes, not less), and at the long end f2.8 often isn't wide enough for good subject isolation. Plus, I really don't like using the GM much past about 50mm, anyway, which is frustrating for such an expensive optic. The debate for me now is (1) the switching cost, (2) that 24-35 are the most important focal lengths to me (the GM's sweet spot), and (3) while ~60mm to 105mm at f4 is both more useful and more usable than the long end of the GM at f2.8, the 24-105 similarly falls short for portraiture (in both subject isolation and bokeh), which is what I care most about in that range. Decisions...
Where's the technically perfect, 1mm-1000mm/f1.0 zoom? (...pancake, of course!)
Laowa 15 or Batis 18 this zoom and call it a day. For a lot of folks this maybe just a perfect combo. Honestly this lens beats the GM from 50 up anyway. One reason I sold it.
