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The origins of the saying date back long before
In reply to nikonjohn,
3 months ago
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nikonjohn wrote:
Daniel Lauring wrote:
This also refutes the tired saying, "You need better glass for if you have a D800." The D800 will improve the performance of all glass. Of course, the better the glass, the better the improvement.
It also makes you wonder if a D5200 might out resolve a D700, under bright light conditions.
All three lens used in the test are high quality and the Canon ($2,299) and Nikon ($1,886) lens are pro grade. The only thing that Lensrentals looked at was resolution. There are other factors that affect the "performance" of a lens, e.g., vignetting, barrell distortion, chromatic aberration, edge to edge sharpness. The only way to tell if the D800 improves the performance of all glass is to put some consumer grade lens on the D800 and see how they fare with that 36 mp sensor.
36 MP or even 21 MP cameras. It was usually claimed when talking about FF cameras. Lenses that looked sharp into the corners on crop had their "true" corner performance exposed on FF. If you buy into the theory that the best lenses have the best performance across the frame, then the saying, or shall we say the "conventional wisdom", made perfect sense. If all you owned were consumer lenses, then their corner performance, if poor, would be exposed i.e. go out and buy better lenses for the corners. I saw this claim made many times in magazine reviews. Don't know how it got started on this forum for the D800 relative to the pack of 12 MP cameras.
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