A range of general test shots are shown over the next two pages. In some cases, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it to show the overall image quality. Some other pictures may be clicked to view the original full-size image.

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Here's the usual detail test shot of the West Window of Exeter Cathedral for you to compare with other cameras. See below for a full res crop, or click to see the whole picture.

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The Carl Zeiss lens provides tons of sharp detail, but some of it is lost in a general graininess.

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The lens does produce some spherical distortion at wide angle. Surprisingly Sony hasn't yet implemented software correction.

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Centre sharpness is very good, as you'd expect.

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Corner sharpness is also excellent, with no chromatic aberration.

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