Had mine for a week but had limited chances to shoot, although when I have it seems to be a cracking lens, sharpness isn't an issue and its a nice size/weight on the A7riii body - I am contempating swapping it for the 24-70 GM though if for no other reason than I'm missing the f2.8
Andrew Gough wrote:
Mine had to go back. A dud, vicnetting at all apertures at 24mm.
Thanks Sony.
Haha! You made me laugh. I remember when I bought the Canon 24 1.4 II and when the files opened in LR, I was like, whoa!, what is this really cool effect? Worst vignetting I’ve ever seen. $1649
It's a lens/software con, folks. They are cheating us. Soon enough, almost all new lenses will be this way - Zonys, Zamrons, even Z-Zeiss perhaps. How crook are these abominations? An example:
Nikon's 24-70/2.8 VR is a $2400, 1070 gram, plastic everything (incl filter threads!), software-dependent pro lens. Let that sink in for a moment. It starts out at 3% barrel and soon heads off to 1.6% pincushion. 'At 24mm and 35mm there is more vignetting wide open than fits our scale - something we haven't seen in this lens class before.' 'chromatic aberrations (color shadows at harsh contrast transitions) are surprisingly high, reaching peak values of above 3 pixels at the image borders at 35mm...CAs this high will have an influence on the perceived sharpness nonetheless.' (PZ)
It's hard to criticize a pretty good Sony consumer zoom when this is what $2400 buys you. Welcome to the future.
It's by design. After correction of the barrel distortion the dark corners would be outside of the picture. Andrew Gough wrote:
I am serious, it was mechanical vignetting, the lens was defective. LR had nothing to do with it.
The built in profile is only for CA, just discovered that. So Philip maybe right, as there is no current profile in lightroom available. I'll have another copy to test this week, so I'll let everyone know. But if its true...
metaldood wrote:
Google translate. It's not perfect but close enough.
I tried Google.translate, what I get is kind of: "The depiction with a stable chisel in any zoom range is painful. Moreover, the depiction power of throttle opening to fully open accelerator. "
Andrew Gough wrote:
The built in profile is only for CA, just discovered that. So Philip maybe right, as there is no current profile in lightroom available. I'll have another copy to test this week, so I'll let everyone know. But if its true...
As Nanh points out, after correcting for barrel distortion the corners clean up quite a bit. I didn't have a brick wall handy to test this, but here is a shot of my office carpet with a7rii and new 24-105. The first is from lightroom, the second is the camera produced jpg.
