Sony FE 20-70mm f/4 G: Going Bonkers Trying to Compare It
I’m going bonkers trying to compare the Sony FE 20-70mm f/4 G. It’s bad enough that it biases focus too close, but it also has a very strong forward focus shift, the kiss of death for getting sharpness where you want it. Add in severe field curvature at some focal lengths and the lack (as yet) of distortion correction from Adobe Camera Raw, and it’s a mess.
I’ll probably go reshoot the comparisons I had shot, all of which are problematic for the reasons cited. Frustrating as heck. Experience tells me that I can probably improve the matchup, but with those other issues things diverge anyway. A replay of a bad movie I’ve seen before.
I can’t stand lens designs that make it hard to get intended results.
Vloggers and snapshot shooters may be happy, and it is a sharp lens after all. Just not in a way I can exploit as I need to for landscape or similar—too hard to figure out where that sharpness will land.
