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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 116297" data-attributes="member: 9240">The one thing that scares me about this lens is this paragraph from the photozone.de review...Unfortunately there may be a hair spoiling the (optical) soup here -&nbsp; quality control. As mentioned we purchased three lens samples for&nbsp; testing, two in Nikon and on in Canon mount, and all three showed some&nbsp; centering issues. The initial Nikon variant was so poor that we had to&nbsp; cancel the testing procedure. The second sample, used for this review,&nbsp; was better, but still suffered from slight decentering at the long end.The last thing I want to do is worry about whether I got a &quot;golden copy&quot; (as they refer to it in the review).&nbsp; It sounds like aZuMi may have gotten one, and that's great.&nbsp; I like the idea that they're telling me it has slightly fewer flare issues than the 14-24mm.&nbsp; Saving $1150 is nothing to sneeze at.&nbsp; Given Amazon's return policy I may just jump on one and give it a go.&nbsp; Given my love for ultrawides, though, I'm also wondering how much I will rue not having 2mm's more?&nbsp; But are they worth $575 per mm?&nbsp; Arrrgh!!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 116297, member: 9240"] The one thing that scares me about this lens is this paragraph from the photozone.de review... [I]Unfortunately there may be a hair spoiling the (optical) soup here - quality control. As mentioned we purchased three lens samples for testing, two in Nikon and on in Canon mount, and all three showed some centering issues. The initial Nikon variant was so poor that we had to cancel the testing procedure. The second sample, used for this review, was better, but still suffered from slight decentering at the long end. [/I] The last thing I want to do is worry about whether I got a "golden copy" (as they refer to it in the review). It sounds like aZuMi may have gotten one, and that's great. I like the idea that they're telling me it has slightly fewer flare issues than the 14-24mm. Saving $1150 is nothing to sneeze at. Given Amazon's return policy I may just jump on one and give it a go. Given my love for ultrawides, though, I'm also wondering how much I will rue not having 2mm's more? But are they worth $575 per mm? Arrrgh!!! [/QUOTE]

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