Decent lens, but far from perfect...

Vic Chapman wrote:

alfaholic wrote:

Well, I am talking about lens sharpness without developing, with sharpness setting to zero in RAW developing software, just looking at the RAF file showing just the lens. As for developing, I can extrude some details from the files and then my photos look relatively normal.

Raw files should be flat with lacklustre colour and little sharpness - that's why they are Raw and need developing. I find that once tonal contrast is returned to the raw file the image immediately takes on sharpness.

Don't expect to process Fuji RAF files as you did Nikon NEF.

Vic

I process RAF files exactly how I process NEF files using ACR and CS6, and I see no difference. He could just be right about the lenses.

Although at 35mm in his files he posted here I'd say the Fuji 35mm is winning against the Sigma 17-50 F2.8 at 36mm easily.

But when it comes to the 35mm F1.8 DX he could just be correct.

That Nikon 35mm F1.8 DX IS insanely sharp. It has fantastic contrast and colour also, it really does. Open up files with it and they often need NO PROCESSING. I kid not. It's that good. It eats my already sharp and good contrast and okay colour Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM for breakfast and that is one damn fine MR zoom lens. You can click auto anything in ACR and CS6 on shots taken with that DX 35mm F1.8 and nothing barely changes, if anything.  The clarity and acutance are stellar.

On the downside it also has slow AF, nasty, nervous bokeh, and back focussing issues, especially wide open and in low light, so is far from perfect.

But it is as sharp as ________.