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A tale of two cameras, part 5

January 26, 2013 JimK Leave a Comment

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 up close:

And here’s a similar detail from an image made at f/6.3, which makes the corners sharper: