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Thursday, September 15, 2005

AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 17-55mm f/2.8G IF DX Lens Review by Thom Hogan:

Here's an image taken at 55mm that shows the modest pincushion distortion (the shore line at the bottom has a bit of curve to it. At the wide end, there's slightly more distortion in the other direction (barrel).

Note that while I'm many miles away from the Alaska Range here (I'm actually sitting in a canoe in the middle of Wonder Lake), the lens is holding quite a bit of detail in the snowy slopes (pretty easy to see even at this small size). Indeed, the detail level that's being recorded is lost in the little bit of noise the D70 produces at ISO 200 (i.e., generally I'm camera limited by this lens, not optics limited). If anything, there's a tiny bit of diffraction softness in this image (taken at f/22), but you'd expect that with any lens at that aperture on a digital body.

What looks like light falloff at the top is actually a very gentle 1 stop soft edge graduated neutral density filter.

I've been studying Japanese in my spare time for the past year. I've also been reading up on digital SLR cameras since I bought one this past July. I'm not sure which language is more daunting.

Posted by morland @ 04:06 PM

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