The RX-1 doesn’t have the chromatic aberration that afflicts the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 on the NEX-7. Look here for NEX-7 pictures. Here’s a scene with high-contrast corners (tree branches against sky) with the RX-1 wide open, with Lightroom lens corrections turned off, but in-camera chromatic aberration correction turned on: Here’s what the branches look like… [Read More]
Archives for 2013
A tale of two cameras, part 4
I checked to see if the soft corners wide open on the RX-1 were because of lack of field flatness. When I focused on a corner, the corners were very marginally sharper than when I focused on the center. However, the center was greatly softened when I focused on a corner when compared to when… [Read More]
A tale of two cameras, part 3
Here‘s a link to the layered psd file with all the images in this post. As before, I recommend that you look at it if you wish to form your own judgements about these images. At f/2 in the upper right corner, the NEX-7 is substantially sharper, but has lower contrast: RX-1 f/2 NEX-7… [Read More]
A tale of two cameras, part 2
Here is my usual low-contrast distant subject test scene as seen by the RX-1: I did a series of tests with both the RX-1 and the NEX-7/24mm f/1.8 at f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, and f/11. I looked at the center part of the image first. I’m putting up 1:1 jpegs, but the best way… [Read More]
A tale of two cameras, part 1
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the spring of digital, it was the autumn of film, it was the end of toxic chemicals, it was the beginning of poisonous third-world recycling, it was the age of a cornucopia of new devices and processes, it was the age… [Read More]