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Compact digital camera wide angle uniformity comparison
| To measure lens vignetting and light fall-off we photographed a white
target with a highly diffused custom filter. Here are the results for the
cameras at their widest focal lengths with the apertures wide open and the
focus manually set to infinity. The images were analysed with Imatest and
the full areas presented here at a reduced resolution. Bigger percentages
are better. The Fujifilm and Sony models performed best here with very little darkening in the corners of wide angle shots. The Canon A620 performed averagely in this respect, but again the Pentax S6 came last with noticeable darkening in its corners at wide angle. |
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35-140mm at 35mm f2.8
Mean corner fall-off: 74.5% |
36-108mm at 36mm f2.8
Mean corner fall-off: 85.7% |
37-112mm at 37mm f2.7
Mean corner fall-off: 63.6% |
38-114mm at 38mm f2.8
Mean corner fall-off: 87% |
Compact digital camera telephoto uniformity comparison
| To measure lens vignetting and light fall-off we photographed a white
target with a highly diffused custom filter. Here are the results for the
cameras at their longest focal lengths with the apertures wide open and
the focus manually set to infinity. The images were analysed with Imatest
and the full areas presented here at a reduced resolution. Bigger percentages
are better. Zoomed-in to telephoto, the results were much closer, and also much improved for the Pentax S6. The Fujifilm F11 edged ahead once more, leaving the Canon A620 coming last, albeit not by a large margin. |
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Canon PowerShot A620
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Fujifilm FinePix F11
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35-140mm at 140mm f4.1
Mean corner fall-off: 82.9% |
36-108mm at 108mm f4.9
Mean corner fall-off: 90.5% |
37-112mm at 112mm f5.2
Mean corner fall-off: 87.7% |
38-114mm at 114mm f5.4
Mean corner fall-off: 89% |
| Fujifilm FinePix F11 See FinePix F30 review and video tour |
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-N1 See Sony N2 review and video tour |
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