On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote: >> My lenses are very rarely the limiting factor in the sharpness of my photos. > > Do you imply they are sharper than you? ;-)
That's not setting the bar very high. > > You should stop that self-flagellation! :-) Either that, or I'm bragging about the quality of my lenses. My most commonly used lenses are my 16-50, FA31, FA77 and DA40. My P50/1.4 is a bit soft wide open, and unfortunately that's how I most often use it as I usually pick it up when I need f/1.4. My 18-250 isn't particularly sharp, but it's sharper at 250 than cropping down from something much shorter. The A* 200/2.8 is pretty sharp, but I mostly use it when I need fast and long. The bigma can be pretty sharp, again sharper at 500 than cropping down from something a lot shorter, but as my recent bird pictures show, it can be a challenge getting sharpness out of it. Stop just about any of those lenses down to f/8-f11 and you'll be hard pressed to tell one from another based on sharpness. I've got a couple of shots I took with the kit lens on the K-x, just for fun, and was pleasantly surprised at how sharp they were. The only reason that I don't use that lens is because my 18-250 is about as sharp and more versatile, and the DA40 is a lot smaller if I want something small and light. For sheer image quality I'd say my favorite lens is my FA77, possibly followed by my DA40. The FA31 is a solid performer and a useful focal length and speed, but for some reason I never developed a strong emotional attachment to its performance. Kind of like the 16-50, I find that I leave the zoom on my K-5 most of the time these days, and it does the job, but it's not a lens that I look forward to using. The other reason that my lenses are rarely the limiting factor is that one of my many peculiarities is that I seem to have more fun working hard to get a decently sharp picture out of lousy light, than I do getting a fantastically sharp picture in good light. If anyone could take a picture, there's no need for me to, I'd rather go for the shot that most people can't even get, where reasonably sharp is a pretty significant technical achievement. Then again, I'm probably not the only odd duck on this list. > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
