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p.3 #13 · p.3 #13 · Sharpness is a worthless measuring stick for lenses | |
Mike Jacks0n wrote:
IMO, sharpness is very important. As mentioned above, it's one of the few performance metrics that can be accurately measured. Yes, understanding the MTF charts come in a multitude of biased flavors does help, but even the biased corrected charts show a lens' inherent design flaws. Without the charts, you would likely need to purchase to see otherwise... or worse take someone's word on its performance. Let's not forget, most reviewers on the "Internets" have a bias. Sometimes financial and other times brand loyalty, but in either case, a bias is still a bias.
Another pro-sharpness argument revolves around post processing. Its tough to make a soft lens sharp, but it's relatively easy to make a sharp lens soft....Show more →
While I agree with your assessment about sharpness being very important but I do beg to differ as the sharpness is being the be all to end all. There are many other virtues to a lens that are imho of equal importance if not more so. Some that come to mind are color saturation, white balance, bokeh quality, micro contrast, tonality, weather resistance, focus speed, focus accuracy along with many more.
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