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How sharp is the FP-L?

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Amadeus21 Senior Member • Posts: 1,158
Re: How sharp is the FP-L?
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Sorry, but in my opinion this is a somewhat absurd question. When is a picture "sharp"?, normally given, that you have a good oder very good (and therefore expensive) lens, given, you have set up the focus and aperture to the most accurate setup, given, that you put the camera on a tripoid or to at least 1/500 sec in order to avoid camera shake. Then may have all "mathematical" conditions to take a "sharp" photo. But appeares such a picture as "sharp", if you blow up the resoluting file up to 1.20 meter x 1.20 meter on the wall and then looking at it out of the distance of 15 centimeter? What, if looking through a microscope?

I have never asked for ulimatively sharp pictures, but expressive pictures. No one is impressed by sharp pictures in an exhibition - exept of pixel peepers, but they visit exhibition not for expressive pictures, but for pixel peeping. An other aspect is to have the focus in a picture on the wrong detail, e.g. to have a person portait, but the focus is on the tip of the nose, but not the eyes.

I had a lot of nice exhibitions with pictures up to over 2 meters width with my SD1M. Those picts you use to look at out of distances of several meters on a large, free wall.

What are "sharp" pictures?

Best wishes,

Johannes

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