The Best and Worst of 2025

[David_B]

If you are trying to come across as intelligent by using “difficult” words, it helps:

1. If you look up their meaning, so you know they have nothing to do with my post.
2. If you spell them correctly.

Exactly! Where's automatic spell correction when you need it!

 

[David_B]

They always "lied" - focal lengths are idealised and rounded, as are aperture ratios. Angle of view and t-stops are more accurate, but rarely used by stills photographers. None of this is secret, and you can of course use these new lenses with all corrections turned off. You can also still choose from a vast range of older lens designs.

You're right about this. I feel that this is where having 3rd party lenses would benefit consumers because they wouldn't be able to take advantage of DLO and other features and thus would produce lenses that weren't compromised like this. Without that competition, consumers are at Canon's mercy.

I am not labouring under the illusion of some kind of purity. All digital images are the product of a combination of hardware and software. Every aspect - from lens design to the precise nature of filter arrays, to the software settings, to the display device (or printer) - has an impact. How could it be otherwise?

It may be as CR guy says, some of us can accept this and some can'. That's just the way it is.