For sure not the sharpest lens on earth, low contrast, difficult to hit the focus, but for a 3-element single-coated lens it renders quite nicely and it is almost impossible to provoke purple fringing.
AhamB wrote:
Great colors, cputeq! You make the kit lens look pretty good like this.
Thanks. I'm still trying to work out a workflow since I'm only working with JPEGs right now - I really wish LR 3.5 would hurry up and be issued with 5N support, as the RAWs (from what I've seen from RPP, which is a total PITA to work with) look much better.
I'm also trying to finalize a tweak to my sharpening - I'm losing a bit of acuity when I upload, and I'm not sure if it's the process of uploading through FM/Flickr/whatever that's doing it, or my output sharpening needs to be done in CS 5 instead of LR3's output sharpening - my photos look sharper on my screen than from either Flickr or FM, even resized to the upload resolution.
the problem is, if I try to compensate from LR3 (setting sharpen for screen to "high" or even "normal" from "low'), it has an oversharpened look. I'm thinking this will require a slightly oversharpened image from CS 5 to get the "right" look when uploaded.
