04-20-2020, 12:01 PM
There seems to be a large number of people complaining about centering/alignment issues with the lens, apart from how a decent copy should perform.
I had a poor copy too, and complaining on the internet does not seem to make any difference apart from informing a tiny portion of people for any possible issues. As David might have already noticed in DPreview's forum, where I have shared a pic, there is always some portion of users who refuse to see obvious problems with a product, and insist that the black is white.
In the case of LensTip - tests require time, and require that you have the product available. More products to choose from = more time to test each one of these. At the end - what is the review that you are going to publish? The best product, the worst, an average? Should you take outliers out, or they are representative and should also be included? In their case - as this particular lens seems to be suffering from Quality Control issues, publishing a review with the findings of the lens that you might get yourself, is the right thing to do.
As a side note - the Japanese government is not happy how dependent Japan has become from components that are manufactured in China, plus they are also suffering from the trade war between China and USA, so they are proposing measures to get some of the exported manufacturing back in the country. If this also happens with some photographic companies, I wonder how would that impact the quality of the products, and what happens to people who have bought the Chinese 24/1.8S, which sufferers from inconsistencies, when a (possibly updated) Japanese version pops out.
I had a poor copy too, and complaining on the internet does not seem to make any difference apart from informing a tiny portion of people for any possible issues. As David might have already noticed in DPreview's forum, where I have shared a pic, there is always some portion of users who refuse to see obvious problems with a product, and insist that the black is white.
In the case of LensTip - tests require time, and require that you have the product available. More products to choose from = more time to test each one of these. At the end - what is the review that you are going to publish? The best product, the worst, an average? Should you take outliers out, or they are representative and should also be included? In their case - as this particular lens seems to be suffering from Quality Control issues, publishing a review with the findings of the lens that you might get yourself, is the right thing to do.
As a side note - the Japanese government is not happy how dependent Japan has become from components that are manufactured in China, plus they are also suffering from the trade war between China and USA, so they are proposing measures to get some of the exported manufacturing back in the country. If this also happens with some photographic companies, I wonder how would that impact the quality of the products, and what happens to people who have bought the Chinese 24/1.8S, which sufferers from inconsistencies, when a (possibly updated) Japanese version pops out.