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Lens Copy Quality Variability

IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
edited September 27, 2013 in Cameras
I thought y'all might find this article interesting. The thrust of the article is that there really IS variability from copy-to-copy in lenses. Even from Canon and Nikon. Kinda confirms what I think we've all suspected but were embarrassed to enunciate.
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    ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 23,851 moderator
    edited September 27, 2013
    I have tried to communicate that before, like in this post [thread=164109]Lens Quality Sample Variation[/thread] (quoted here for your reading pleasure):
    ziggy53 wrote: »
    ... Ever since dSLRs hit 6 MPix (or so) we have been able to see sample variations in lens quality and focus accuracy that were not plainly visible before. A small sampling of any single lens/camera combination should not be used to define absolute quality across an entire line of products. ...

    Roger has some very nice statistics to back it up, however. thumb.gif
    ziggy53
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