Originally posted by dcumpian My copy is pretty much like yours. Not sure that any other copy would be any different. Once you are aware of it, you can learn to use composition to avoid the worst of it, or crop it if you feel the need. I leave it alone and no one has ever complained
Regards,
Dan
Seems that way, I guess it's probably just the field curvature then. I try to avoid cropping too much; and to get rid of the soft area in most of today's images I'd probably be losing a good chunk of the frame. But the effort might be worth it given the other merits!
Originally posted by kh1234567890 More spiders
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That's as good as it gets
Mind you, after you'd cropped out the fuzzy corners, downscaled the image and wound up the saturation to beyond belief everyone will go 'Aaaah ..' all the same.
Stop it down to at least f6.3, turn off SR, don't rely on AF ...
Seems a good lens for spiders! Really nice shot, the yellow makes it.
Yeah, I've done some more test shooting today and it seems that way. Probably just the field curvature. Ah well. I almost always focus manually anyway, don't trust the AF on my K-7 any more
Been shooting it at pretty much exclusively f/11 too, but stopping down (even further) only helps a little bit. I'd hoped it might produce images that would stand up to 1:1 scrutiny, but it doesn't seem the tool for that job. As for shooting straight into the sun... got that covered.