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Started Feb 9, 2020 | Discussions thread
400trix
400trix Senior Member • Posts: 1,125
Re: Sharpness isn't the determining factor for Street Photography
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linux99 wrote:

When researching I found that the Pana 20mm 1.7 has outdated focusing speed, while the Pana 14mm and Oly 17 mm had less than stellar IQ.

The IQ of these lenses is plenty sharp enough for Street Photography. The object there is to capture an image which captures a contextualized image of something you see in a urban environment.

You get judged on content almost exclusively - possibly more than any other facet of photography. IQ is a log long long way down the list behind, content, context and timing.

One could (and I do) argue that this is the standard for all photography. Sometimes technical aspects work their way into it, especially in landscape, but it’s the image that matters.

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