Re-purposed old 17-35mm EX HSM to Sony

DMillier wrote:

So, I printed an SD14 image (of an old stone church clock tower). At arm's length it looks pretty good, more than acceptable to put on the wall.

However, it gets worse towards the edges. It might be a depth of field issue or perhaps that 17-35mm isn't so great at the edges even on a 1.7x crop sensor.

At a viewing distance of 1 metre to 4 feet (Brit style mix and match units!**) it looks good. Under close and critical scrutiny, the weather vane at the top of the frame is quite smeared as are the steps and windows at the bottom of the image. The Sd14 seems detailed enough in the centre. Whether the lens has problems or whether this shot just needs a bit more depth of field ought to be obvious once I shoot it on the Sony.

Even so, this pretty much supports my contention that too much angst is expended on camera image quality. They're all good enough unless you have rather extreme needs.

Agreed. Too, a lot of angst is expended on stuff that is outside the limits of Human Vision.

Ted

In respect of the resampling, I leave that to Lightroom's behind the scene magic. I set it to 360ppi in the print dialogue, print sharpening to medium. It seems fine to me. I am printing on a very smooth matte paper, maybe these things are more important on ultra sharp glossy papers?

Thanks for the SD14 result.

** Temperature measurements are the best: on a cold mid winter day it's 0 degrees C. On a baking summer day, it's 90 degrees F. Whichever unit makes it sound worse!

Excellent.

p.s.

My 16 year old has never heard of Fahrenheit. It'll be hilarious if Boris succeeds in his crazy plan to return the country to the glory days of Empire. Firkins, anyone?

Good grief! Tell me it ain't so ... I still remember, courtesy of Heath & Co, buying cloth a yard or 48" wide by the meter length ... glurk.

Having said that, I still bask daily in the use of Imperial (a.k.a. U.S. Customary) units.