Any photo can be sharpened. That says absolutely nothing whether lens is truly sharp or not. Only resolution measurement can answer that. Until then here is a 100% crop from SOOC shot taken with NEX5 and ZM 25/2.8 @ 2.8 that didn't have t go through tons of extra processing from RAW to be razor sharp (enlarge it to full size and check out fine nose hairs).
Any photo can be sharpened. That says absolutely nothing whether lens is truly sharp or not. Only resolution measurement can answer that. Until then here is a 100% crop from SOOC shot taken with NEX5 and ZM 25/2.8 @ 2.8 that didn't have t go through tons of extra processing from RAW to be razor sharp (enlarge it to full size and check out fine nose hairs).
ROFLMAO!
LoL, when You look in the EXIF-Data from this RAF-Photo it was shot with Flash on and Fired... ;-)
iPhoto is 8-bit only, you need a 16-bit workflow in order to extract the full detail from these files.
If you want to show the photo at its actual size, you need to enable "Allow download of originals" in your profile.
You're in the advertising industry, aren't you? If not, you may have missed your calling in life.
Who cares? First, we were talking sharpness, not retaining of highlights. Second, I was interested to expose face correctly to quickly check the lens, and in conditions shot was taken in (strong sun behind the person while he is in shade) any other camera would have blown highlights too.
Check out settings used in JPEG, remember this was wide open, and then realize if I have shot this at F4 to 5.6 and I was in mood to give you RAW files they would have been so sharp after processing that you would have to sign the waiver in case you cut yourself while opening them.
Then check out his ear hair. Details like that are much better indicator of what is sharp and what is not than rounded surface of chunk of stone in a cathedral, object whose edge is far from well defined. You don't even know where it begins and where it ends.
LOL No, I'm not. Purpose of marketing is to convince you there are no negatives and to magnify positives, to convince you something is God's gift that you want, to convince you to buy, buy, buy. That is not me. I am too realistic to be in marketing.You're in the advertising industry, aren't you? If not, you may have missed your calling in life.
I'm not talking about your off-topic shots from a nex5, i'm talking about the fuji. Most people know fuji used to have a super ccd sensor with 12 stops dynamic range. The blown highlights indicate they may have gone backwards, unless the raw file is available and we could try the recovery slider in camera raw to see fully.Therefore the fuji tiffs here are not as informative as they could be.
Whoops, sorry, I thought it is NEX5 shot you were talking about because of mention of hair
