• D
    DocInfoSci replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    Wait, are you saying that Canon’s digitally corrected lenses are already corrected in the raw file itself and digital optimizer isn’t...
  • AlanF
    AlanF replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    I'm also a bit of a scientist, and I see no scientific objections to correcting via digital rather than by analogue methods.
  • D
    DocInfoSci replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    Totally fair! But… the aspherical elements don’t require additional software. They distort all on their own. 😜 I expect lens...
  • neuroanatomist
    If you want to use Canon's Digital Lens Optimizer, then yes you need to take JPGs from the camera or use Canon's DPP for RAW...
  • D
    Del Paso replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    Though I very subjectively tend to prefer optically corrected lenses, the latest Canon primes prove that which way is chosen has no...
  • F
    foda replied to the thread Highlights from Panama!.
    Terrific photos Glenn! What camera/lens combinations were you using?
  • D
    DocInfoSci replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    I think that's a fine perspective. Just different. Canon's software correction requires a Canon pipeline -- right? Unless I'm...
  • Richard CR
    I read a report on DCLife, which highlighted an interview in the Nikkei newspaper with Canon's Canon's Chief Financial Officer (CFO)...
  • Click
    Click replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    The Best and Worst of 2025 Worst: When Canon Rumor announced it was closing. Best: When the forum reopened. Many thanks to the entire...
  • neuroanatomist
    Not for me. I'm not bothered by the need for digital corrections because I understand that 'pure performance based on physics' also...
  • D
    DocInfoSci replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    I think that in the context of Canon's current default-approach of software correction it's fine to call-out any such afflicted lens for...
  • P
    I think you are the only one who saw those images and thought they represented something they don’t. And now you won’t stop going on and...
  • P-visie
    Please stop blaming others and playing the victim: you’ve shut yourself out by refusing to admit that you are wrong and refusing to...
  • T
    Focus shift is only close to the minimal focus distance. Like EF 50mm 1.2
  • AlanF
    Now you know how Franz Liebkind felt. We have a Maximilian posting (not Bialystsock, fortunately) and we need more of the cast.
  • P
    PinholeR5 replied to the thread The Best and Worst of 2025.
    Thanks!
  • B
    I tried to get this done, but so early in the process that Sigma Japan had not yet sent the necessary parts to Sigma USA. Sigma sent me...
  • neuroanatomist
    Apologies for one more OT post, but in case you aren't aware the forum does have an Ignore feature. You can click on a username, then...
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  • M
    Please, please, stop this useless discussion. Get back on topic.
  • Philnick
    I'm done posting here. You folks are not worth the effort, since you've clearly circled the wagons and left me out. Where's Mel Brooks...
  • EricN
    Once again, it could be explained by the mega pixels, processing, and compression. None of those things are necessary connected with...
  • neuroanatomist
    You're in the wrong, and you expect people to agree with you? Anyway, since your statement that you'd settle for an end to the dispute...
  • neuroanatomist
    The smudging from AI-driven noise reduction by the iPhone is very evident to anyone who knows what to look for. I guess now you know...
  • Philnick
    I continue to be astonished that no one here is agreeing with me. I appear to be visiting Earth 2.
  • Philnick
    Did you double-click on it? Apparently not - maybe because you don't want to see what I'm saying. It's a grainy low resolution image...
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