Click to see the original (827x827) crop - that's about 30% of the height of a 12mpx frame, so... not exactly a "neglectible" problem for me.
Well, the long story... I wanted a little bit more wide angle and a little bit more versatility in a single lens after hauling too much glass around on my recent hike to the Wimbachgries (I'll maybe add more about that in another post). And of course, the 24-120VR Nikkor sounds like a very good lens for exactly that purpose. In theory.
In practice, the corners in the range of 24-35mm are rather unusable unless you stop down to f/16 (yes, sixteen!), and even then, they're still somewhat soft and blurry. Since that wide end was the reason to get that lens, it does not fit my requirements at all, and I returned it. Maybe I got a bad one? I don't know, and I do not intend to find out.
I hope that the rumors are right that Nikon will release a new 24-105VR at this years Photokina. I can wait and will use my cheap, plastic, 30€-used 28-80mm instead. It's certainly better at the wide end!
Interesting Alexander...I'm pretty happy with my sigma 24-70 hsm...not so versatile...but it's not that blury at corners.
ReplyDeleteI see wide lenses are somekind dificult to build....the sigma 12-24 suffers a lot on corners...and the nikon 14-24 is much better...but not really good.
According to photozone.de the 14-24 is an excellent lens, quote: "The Nikkor AF-S 14-24 is an impressive ultra wide angle zooms lens that outperforms most of the prime lenses in its range resolution wise, with its fast aperture allows for low light shooting (or alternatively some object separation with limited depth of field) and is built solid enough to withstand the hard treatment of a working professional (allthough this, combined with the huge amount of class, makes it the heaviest ultra wide around and also one of the most expensive)."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.photozone.de/nikon_ff/447-nikkor_afs_1424_28_ff