You can't blame Photodo. Photodo does MTF testing which measures
multiple points from center to corner.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 12:35 PM, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I remember years ago when the OM system was still in production seeing
>> consumer reports articles on 35mm cameras and lenses and they always rated
>> Olympus lenses as average to below average in sharpness, with Nikon and
>> Canon always getting the high ratings. I had Nikon and Olympus stuff at the
>> time and remember thinking that CR must be biased or crazy cause I didn't
>> see any superiority in the Nikon lenses I had compared to my Olympus
>> equivilants (the 50mm f1.8 was one in particular I remember that CR didn't
>> like from Olympus).
>
> If we assume they were actually testing, it was probably that they
> were only testing center sharpness. Photodo did the same thing IIRC,
> and as a result Zuikos came up shorter than in tests that also
> factored in corner sharpness.
>
> Joel W.
>
>
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