The hybrid primes won’t be all we get for fast wide-angle L prime lenses

[koenkooi]

OpticalLimits has pushed its review of the RF 35 mm f1.4 L VCM, from the summary: “The performance of the Canon RF 35mm f/1.4 L VCM is a bit difficult to summarize into a single figure. If image sharpness is what you value the most, this is certainly a lens for you. It's sharp at f/1.4 already and downright superb from f/2 to f/8. It's also resistant to flare, and auto-correction does a good job of correcting vignetting and distortion. The lens does, however, rely heavily on a correction profile to achieve this, which is a bit disappointing for a $1500 USD lens. The correction profile doesn't help with the high axial CAs, and the focus shift is a bit of a concern in manual focus mode, at least. The quality of bokeh is good for such a lens.”

See: https://opticallimits.com/canon/canon-rf/canon-rf-35mm-f-1-4-l-vcm-review/

It's interesting to see the divide between people who a priori hate any and every need for distortion correction and people that want to see the effect first. The former is certainly a valid position, especially for L series lenses, that were previously much better optically corrected than their non-L counterparts.

Since m4/3 has been doing this since forever, and usually in a way that, in most RAW converters, you cannot disable the corrections I predict that we'll be seeing a lot more of these lenses for full frame, from every manufacturer. I wasn't fond of such lenses, but after using the 15-30mm, 16mm and 28mm I have to say that I enjoy the reduced size and weight. DxO PR4 and Adobe Enhance can be used to get detail 'back'. I suspect that's mostly placebo effect since no one has disproved the assertion from @SwissFrank that (paraphrasing here) its impact can't be visually detected.

 

[P-visie]

It's interesting to see the divide between people who a priori hate any and every need for distortion correction and people that want to see the effect first. The former is certainly a valid position, especially for L series lenses, that were previously much better optically corrected than their non-L counterparts.

Since m4/3 has been doing this since forever, and usually in a way that, in most RAW converters, you cannot disable the corrections I predict that we'll be seeing a lot more of these lenses for full frame, from every manufacturer. I wasn't fond of such lenses, but after using the 15-30mm, 16mm and 28mm I have to say that I enjoy the reduced size and weight. DxO PR4 and Adobe Enhance can be used to get detail 'back'. I suspect that's mostly placebo effect since no one has disproved the assertion from @SwissFrank that (paraphrasing here) its impact can't be visually detected.

Yes, one only has to compare the EF 11-24 mm f4 size and weight with that of the RF 10-20 mm f4. I suspect most of the reduction comes from the RF mount’s shorter flange distance, enabling a less complex optical design, but the software distortion correction will have contributed to the reduction.