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You make it sound like planar performance is the benchmark to which all lenses should aspire.I was thinking about getting this lens also, and like Tim, I am looking for the exact same thing, good planar performance at distance. I am starting to think that this new lens was not designed for this. How I understand it, especially with WA lenses, that something has to give.
There is nothing on Earth at infinity. To get a sharp landscape, you will want to focus at some other distance.
No need to apologise. I simply am perplexed as to why some apparently place high value on planar performance from a lens intended to be used for genres of photography other than architecture.Sorry...
I like to shoot landscape. A lens' non-planar field of focus is not necessarily a bar to high sharpness across the frame; it simply means that depth of field is closer to the camera in some areas than it is in others. When was the last time you viewed a landscape in which all parts of the composition were equidistant from the camera?I was just referring to folks who like to shoot landscape and most of us landscape shooters are usually looking for even sharpness across the frame.
Why now ??Laser says it all, Guy .
Which actually makes me a little angry. I mean, why now? Why have we had to put up with second rate, soft wide open, mediocrity from so many lenses for so long? Better late than never I suppose.