Not only Olympus, looking at the MTF of many wide lenses, they fall to
'earth' at the corner. BTW, the 24/2 at F4 performs better than a late
design 17-40L (at 24/F4) even on the edges.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawid Loubser"
> That may very well be. I am sure they also had to accept some
> compromises to
> achieve the small physical lens size (even the f/2 lenses are
> considerably smaller
> than any of their competitors that I have seen) - similar to how Leica
> allows
> their fast lenses to have serious light falloff towards the corners.
>
> On 05 Aug 2009, at 12:30 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>
>> I was just joking, OM 35/2's performance is indeed very good. For the
>> extreme corners, there is no hope, all Zuiko F2 wide has the same
>> problem, I
>> believe the designer expected the corners to be covered by slide
>> mount.
>>
>> C.H.Ling
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