Thanks. The 18mm Zuiko is has been my favorite lens for some years now. I've often thought about selling it and buying a Zeiss 21/2.8 but am glad I did not.
What aperture was this shot at and how much effort was required for dealing with the vignetting ... I'm evaluating this lens, and mine seems to vignette pretty heavy.
RustyBug: I'm almost certain it's shot at f/11. The lens is best at f/8 to f/11 (like many lenses) with f/5.6 and f/16 perfectly good. I shoot f/11 most of the time with this lens to lower the chance of foreground not being in focus.
Regarding vignetting, f/3.5 has severe vignetting and f/5.6 some but I find it's not there at f/8. You can see in this image there is slight darkening in the corners of the sky but think it is the polarizer (B&W slim). I have the orignal hood/shade and it only takes slim filters. I do also have a 100mm Lee filter holder and you need the 72mm wide angle adapter ring to use it. I've seen no vignetting when using the Lee filters. I'm planning on getting a Lee circular polarizer for the summer.
Generally I'm not too concerned about vignetting. The lens is very wide and the sky or foreground is most of the time not uniform anyway. And when I'm using the lens wide open it's usually at night or dusk where everything is rather dark anyway. But if dealing with vignetting I use Lightroom to correct it (and hope the 1DsII raw file will allow me to push it).
I ran outside to do a little test and it seems like there's tiny amount of vignetting on every aperture in the last few millimeters of the corners, even with the shade off. We could call it a property of the lens then. Never noticed it before but might make the pp on some shots more difficult. Probably a trade off for the lens being so small.
On having both 18 Zuiko and 21mm Zeiss. It would be nice but I don't want my bag to get too heavy. I was plannig a set of 18mm Zuiko, Zeiss 28/2, and Zeiss 50/2 MP. I had already gotten the 28/2 and most of the time I could make either work for what I was aiming for. 18-24-35-50 would probably be perfect but 18-28-50 good enough. The 28/2 Zeiss was stolen from me so I'm rethinking my lens line-up at the moment.
hauxon wrote:
I ran outside to do a little test and it seems like there's tiny amount of vignetting on every aperture in the last few millimeters of the corners, even with the shade off. We could call it a property of the lens then.
That's what I'm seeing ... property of the lens, ok.
