chez wrote: ronno wrote: chez wrote: ronno wrote:
It would help if people could actually tell which lens was used in a print or on the web or…
Photographers with sharp monitors, like to zoom in and marvel at the “3D Pop/micro detail etc etc,” but then out in the real world looking at a print, no one can tell, and they don’t care either. What they care about is the content. I’ve gone to so many museums and galleries in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles… I have personally had prints in the MOMA, Sotheby’s, etc.
No one knows or cares about the equipment used. So why spend five times more than a good lens from Sony or Canon, etc.? Especially when lots of them are manual focus.
I think the above is the real issue with selling these lenses. It’s not the fault of some YouTube reviewers. It’s the fact that nobody in the real world can tell the damn difference.
You make it sound like manual focus is a bad thing. For my landscape photography, I use manual focus lenses that allow me buttery smooth precise focus exactly where I want it in my image. With auto focus you are not getting this level of precision.
I agree that content is king, but why not get this content as best you can? Why spend thousands of dollars getting to a destination and then using a subpar lens. The content would be the same, but the actual result will not.
I would bet that if you handed 10 people cameras, the auto focused shots would have overall better focus than if they tried manual.
I have bought 1.2 lenses, shot so many great pictures with a 50 1.8 that cost 90 bucks… the lens is not “subpar“ just because you can see some micro detail or what not in photoshop. Again it’s about the end result. Make an print and nobody cares about the equipment, just who got the better content.
10 people or 10 established photographers? Makes a huge difference. In this thread about Zeiss lenses, I believe we would be talking about 10 established photographers. If that’s the case, then I still stand by my statement that I can get more precise focus using manual lenses than AF lenses when I shoot landscapes.
As far as no one cares…you are wrong. I care. I want to achieve the best I can…not just good enough for someone else.
Saying no one outside of photography circles cares. They’re just looking at pictures.
I personally spend the money, I have a Sony A1 sitting next to me…
I’m talking about why more people don’t buy the lenses, the topic of the thread here. I’m not questioning whether photographers should value nice things.
Nov 13, 2024 at 02:39 PM
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