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Decent lens, but far from perfect...

Started Dec 15, 2017 | User reviews thread
Iuvenis Senior Member • Posts: 1,510
Re: Decent lens, but far from perfect...
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That's a flawed measure I'm afraid. The human eye is not good at detecting resolution in isolation. It is easily confused between 'sharpness' and resolution (hence the use of high acutance films in analogue days).

In the digital era, you can have as much sharpness as you want. You can't have as much resolution as you want. If you have resolution, you can add sharpness later, but not the other way round.

If you're testing the lens scientifically, there are ways to do that (look round the web, it's not something I bother doing myself). If you care about how the lens looks in real life, experiment with different workflows until you get the results you want and don't worry about whether that's scientific.

It's possible you have bad copies of the 18-55 and 35, but the more likely issue is workflow.

Getting a final image from a RAW file is like baking a cake from raw ingredients, with the main difference being that you can do it again and again until you get the result you want. Having the right ingredients is essential, but you can still produce a horrible cake from good ingredients.

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