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Sony / Zeiss FE 24-70mm f/4 OSS Vario-Tessar

Distortion and Color Fringing @ 70mm

Shown for comparison are Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) with corrections “off”*, and Iridient Developer with distortion correction enabled (but no other corrections). This is the same original raw ARW file; the differences are strictly from the raw converters.

* Adobe Camera Raw auto-corrects color fringing with A7 files and there is NO WAY TO DISABLE IT (see settings at end of this page). The correction is performed regardless of camera settings, e.g., whether Chro. Aber. Comp = Auto or Off (tested by shooting the same frame with it enabled and disabled).

The uncorrected image from ACR shows strong pincushion distortion, probably something on the order of 2.5% to 3%. Placing a line across the ruler in Photoshop shows a slight undercorrection from Iridient Developer (a residual pincushion distortion). This is not surprising for a zoom lens; presumably the exact behavior is not necessarily known precisely for every focal length in the zoom range.

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