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I have a D5300 with the 18-300 lens. This is my second SLR, the first being an old 35mm Minolta from the 80s that took great pictures. I'm generally pleased with the pictures with my 5300 except for a recurring problem where the lower left corner of each image appears to droop. Put another way, the image looks slightly rotated to the left, especially when you look at the lower left quadrant of most shots.
To investigate the matter, I took straight ahead shots of graph paper with lots of horizontal and vertical lines at focal lengths of 300mm, 105mm and 35mm. In each shot I was careful to make sure the horizontal lines in the auto focus boundary seen in the viewfinder lined up perfectly with a horizontal line on the graph paper. In all shots, the image falls off at the edges, but more so to the lower left.
I know this lens tries to do it all, and probably does so with a lot of compromises. Could the lens be creating this type of distortion, enough so that it makes images appear rotated? I understood that the 5300 had lens distortion correction software, but haven't been able to figure out how to use it with the 18-300 lens.
To investigate the matter, I took straight ahead shots of graph paper with lots of horizontal and vertical lines at focal lengths of 300mm, 105mm and 35mm. In each shot I was careful to make sure the horizontal lines in the auto focus boundary seen in the viewfinder lined up perfectly with a horizontal line on the graph paper. In all shots, the image falls off at the edges, but more so to the lower left.
I know this lens tries to do it all, and probably does so with a lot of compromises. Could the lens be creating this type of distortion, enough so that it makes images appear rotated? I understood that the 5300 had lens distortion correction software, but haven't been able to figure out how to use it with the 18-300 lens.