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You can switch between the versions with the revert and update buttons to see the differences. If the camera/lens combination you used on the selected photo is in the database the pincushion and barrel correction will be applied automatically. It may do a better job with photos that show just a small amount of CA. The photos got blurry while the purple fringes were still clearly visible. I tried to get rid of CA on some photos with heavy CA but LensFix CI didn’t do a good job here. The plug-in also adds the ability to (manually) correct chromatic aberration (CA), something that’s been greatly missed ever since the release of Aperture 2. It’s better to add it to your ~Library/Application Suport/Aperture/Plug_ins/ folder in your user home though because it will be backed up with Time Machine in your user home.Īfter (re)starting Aperture 2, the plug-in is available from the Images menu: You can put the plug-in in the /Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug_Ins/ folder. It works pretty well as you can see in my animated GIF below (please click to enlarge). Would it be at least as good as my current 15-30 and 28-105 lenses? Does the VR more than compensate for the loss of a stop or so compared to the 18-50 f2.8? I can certainly live with the loss of that extra 3mm at the wide end, and the long end extension is a potential big bonus.The latest version of Kekus LensFix CI features a beta Aperture 2.1 plug-in. I had initially looked at selling the 15-30 and getting something like the Sigma 18-50 f2.8 or the Tamron equivalent (from what I have seen they are both better than the Nikon lens).īut now I am thinking about the 18-200 VR. And the sensor dust potential that that entails. I find the 15-30 rather cumbersome, and, given that I am not one to handle my kit with kid gloves, that unprotected bulbous front element seems a bit of a liability in my hands! It's certainly damn hard to clean.īut the main problem I have for day-to-day photography is the constant switching between the two lenses. I currently have a Fuji S2Pro with a Sigma 15-30 and a Nikon 28-105. I hope no-one minds me resurecting this old thread! With the D200 having no competition at the price point and this lens being apparently the best "do it all zoom" so far this century the future for DX gets increasingly brighter. Obviously tripod mode VR is a bonus as is the closer focus than many other Nikon zooms. I suspect (but cannot confirm) that with DX the VR group can be smaller and lighter than for 24x36 making 4 stops possible on DX, but still with a limit of 3x on 24x36. The 18-70 is usefully sharper with faster apertures than the equivalent angle of view with 24x36 28-105.
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This means the 17-55 despite being a 3x zoom is optically sharper (agreed not by a lot) than either the 17-35 or 28-70 AFS 2x 24x36 zooms. One of the advantages of DX is that lens aberrations are smaller and need less optical design to correct than 24x36 format. Forgetting about whether Ken's reviews are good or bad the NIKON official MTF (only released at 18 and 200mm) confirms this lens has better sharpness wide open compared to any similar aperture Nikon zoom.