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Examples: Twenty Lakes Basin
These images with a second and noticeably inferior sample of the 20-35mm, particularly at 35mm, where the lens cannot deliver a sharp image along the entire left side of the frame, even at f/9. How can Fujfilm ship crap-grade performance like that to customers? I accept that f/4 has limitations, but f/9 = unacceptable WTF.
This page shows examples with the Fujifilm GF 20-35mm f/4 in the Twenty Lakes Basin of California. Some examples shot handheld, and some tripod-based focus stacks.
Includes images up to full camera resolution, plus crops.
Conness Lakes Basin @ 22mm
Lens performance is solid here at 22mm, but not as good as the sample I had shot a few weeks earlier.
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Fujifilm GFX100S + GF20-35mmF4 R WR @ 18.2mm equiv (22.1mm)
ENV: Conness Lakes, altitude 10500 ft / 3200 m, 70°F / 21°C
RAW: Camera ASTIA, Enhance Details, LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, WB 5150°K tint 21, push 0.33 stops, +20 Whites, +15 Dehaze, +10 Clarity, AI Denoise 10, +10 Vibrance
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