Which pic do you prefer?

[yogi4fitness]

Here are three pics from my 3 EDCs. Once I have enough votes I'll reveal which is which. These were 3 different focal lengths so I tried to crop them to equivalent FOV and tried matching light levels to the best of my ability. All lenses were wide open and ISO set to lowest value and shutter speed set to 1/60. Everything else is standard Adobe LR setting (processed from RAWs). No other changes to were made. Here are the pics.

Thanks for your participation!


A


B

 

[tbcass]

They are close but if I have to choose after close examination I prefer the second.

 

[Dak on cam]

Here are three pics from my 3 EDCs. Once I have enough votes I'll reveal which is which. These were 3 different focal lengths so I tried to crop them to equivalent FOV and tried matching light levels to the best of my ability.

That seems a bit like an exercise in futility since your whole scene is flat which means that it will be rendered identically at different focal lengths when framed the same.

The closer you move, the more the lens is taxed dealing with vignetting and local resolution problems in the corners, but essentially you get to see problems you'd see in lens charts, not actual perspective differences. It is a reasonable guess that at similar price point, ultrawides will fare worse than less ambitious focal lengths. But what does that tell you that you didn't know before?

 

[Guy Parsons]

The seemingly more even lighting of A is my choice. B and C darken off on the left side.

I auto-corrected them all in FastStone Viewer and it still came out as A for my preference based on the overall look. Comparing details they were all much the same with B a bit warmer than the others. I'm using a calibrated monitor.

As they were all raw conversions it would make more sense to be comparing out of camera jpegs. That way we would be comparing cameras and not what raw conversion software may choose to do to them.

 

[yogi4fitness]

Here are three pics from my 3 EDCs. Once I have enough votes I'll reveal which is which. These were 3 different focal lengths so I tried to crop them to equivalent FOV and tried matching light levels to the best of my ability.

That seems a bit like an exercise in futility since your whole scene is flat which means that it will be rendered identically at different focal lengths when framed the same.

I was only looking for peoples preference in terms of color and micro contrast.

The closer you move, the more the lens is taxed dealing with vignetting and local resolution problems in the corners, but essentially you get to see problems you'd see in lens charts, not actual perspective differences. It is a reasonable guess that at similar price point, ultrawides will fare worse than less ambitious focal lengths. But what does that tell you that you didn't know before?

I agree with all of the above.

In the next comparison I'll shoot all 3 systems in a real scene at the same aperture/ISO/SS.

 

[ishwanu]

B and C have murkier colors than A, but after that's corrected they both have visibly better detail than A. C might have a slight edge over B in sharpness, though they're very close. Some of the differences won't be easily discernible in 6MP images.

 

[ultrarcher]

Any one. All of them are boring. Try to make real picture of something more interesting

 

[yogi4fitness]

Any one. All of them are boring. Try to make real picture of something more interesting

You missed the point. I wasn't trying to make an interesting picture. Just seeing color and micro-contrast preferences.

Would a landscape pic make it more interesting? That was my plan next.

 

[tbcass]

The seemingly more even lighting of A is my choice. B and C darken off on the left side.

I auto-corrected them all in FastStone Viewer and it still came out as A for my preference based on the overall look. Comparing details they were all much the same with B a bit warmer than the others. I'm using a calibrated monitor.

As they were all raw conversions it would make more sense to be comparing out of camera jpegs. That way we would be comparing cameras and not what raw conversion software may choose to do to them.

I respectfully disagree that comparing OOC JPEGs would make a better comparison because in that case you are comparing the internal JPEG engine more than the camera and lens. The best comparison would be to have the RAWs available for each of us to process ourselves.

 

[tbcass]

Any one. All of them are boring. Try to make real picture of something more interesting

DPR test scenes are boring as well but for judging camera IQ it's better than an actual scene. We are supposed to be judging the camera output rather than the photograph aesthetics.

 

[Guy Parsons]

The seemingly more even lighting of A is my choice. B and C darken off on the left side.

I auto-corrected them all in FastStone Viewer and it still came out as A for my preference based on the overall look. Comparing details they were all much the same with B a bit warmer than the others. I'm using a calibrated monitor.

As they were all raw conversions it would make more sense to be comparing out of camera jpegs. That way we would be comparing cameras and not what raw conversion software may choose to do to them.

I respectfully disagree that comparing OOC JPEGs would make a better comparison because in that case you are comparing the internal JPEG engine more than the camera and lens. The best comparison would be to have the RAWs available for each of us to process ourselves.

Yes, that would make more sense as we all have different ideas on how we use our sometimes different raw converters. My idea was that we would at least get away from depending on the OP choice of raw converter and the OP adjustments to same.

In my case I mostly use Photolab7 (maybe update later this year) and increasingly experiment with latest Silkypix 12 features. I seem to have drifted away from using Affinity Photo 2. All simple quick and simple changes and crops, resizes etc are with FastStone Viewer, usually to any camera jpegs and sometimes to jpegs from raw converters.

 

[yogi4fitness]

The seemingly more even lighting of A is my choice. B and C darken off on the left side.

I auto-corrected them all in FastStone Viewer and it still came out as A for my preference based on the overall look. Comparing details they were all much the same with B a bit warmer than the others. I'm using a calibrated monitor.

As they were all raw conversions it would make more sense to be comparing out of camera jpegs. That way we would be comparing cameras and not what raw conversion software may choose to do to them.

I respectfully disagree that comparing OOC JPEGs would make a better comparison because in that case you are comparing the internal JPEG engine more than the camera and lens. The best comparison would be to have the RAWs available for each of us to process ourselves.

Yes, that would make more sense as we all have different ideas on how we use our sometimes different raw converters. My idea was that we would at least get away from depending on the OP choice of raw converter and the OP adjustments to same.

I used the same raw converter on all the images (LR - Adobe Color) and only adjusted exposure to match them as close as possible. No changes to any other sliders. All set to AWB.

In my case I mostly use Photolab7 (maybe update later this year) and increasingly experiment with latest Silkypix 12 features. I seem to have drifted away from using Affinity Photo 2. All simple quick and simple changes and crops, resizes etc are with FastStone Viewer, usually to any camera jpegs and sometimes to jpegs from raw converters.