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    • After a few days with the sl2s, my first impressions are extremely positive. I’ve only adapted my m lenses thus far but to my eyes, they perform just as well on this body as they do on my M cameras. The high iso performance is cleaner than any camera I’ve used before, I’ve not compared this with a downsampled m10r file but this is my first impression. The ibis is a nice to have and overall the sl body offers a lovely user experience. It’s weighty but assured and with my small lenses, not prohibitive at all. I’m still adjusting to the post processing side of things but as a starting point, I like the base colour output that LR gives me more so than any other camera since the m8/m9.   
    • Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe early evening.  SL2-S & Sigma 18-50mm @18mm   2secs. f22 hand held  (please click on image for better res.)

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    • Yes, basically all lens manufacturers today allow stronger distortion in their lens design and compensate this with digital distortion correction, mainly to achieve more compact lens designs. The digital distortion correction in the best case removes the distortion completely. But: It always reduces the resolution / sharpness, so it is definitely a compromise to apply it. If a lens has let's say 6% distortion, the whole image is squeezed to remove the distortion and all image pixels are 'stretched' and interpolated which leads to a reduction of resolution of that amount distortion in certain areas plus interpolation losses, in total, in our example maybe 10%. So that is quite relevant! And the big question is: Is the MTF data provided for example by Leica and Sigma for their L-mount lenses with or without distortion correction? Enclosed image edges from six Sigma L-mount lenses with distortion reduction turned off. The 20f2 and 24f2 are worst. I had both and kept the 24f2 which is generally sharper towards the image corners, so also after distortion correction. The 28mm lens in the Q cameras and the L 24-90 at 24mm have even stronger distortion than the Sigma L 20f2 and 24f2, so the digital distortion correction will have quite an impact on the corner resolution because the pixels are stretched to such a high extend. Btw. 1:  In a lens with barrel distortion, the digital distortion correction will reduce the sharpness more in the image corners than in the center. In a lens with pincushion distortion, the digital distortion correction will reduce the sharpness more towards the image center while not much modifying the image corners. Btw. 2: the-digital-picture.com shows well the distortion of lenses. Unfortunately no L mount lenses, but some Sigma which are available in E mount and L mount. Sigma / Leica 14-24f2.8 https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lens-Distortion.aspx?Lens=1535 Sigma / Leica 24-70f2.8 https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lens-Distortion.aspx?FLI=0&FLIComp=0&LensComp=0&CameraComp=0&Lens=1518  

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