Re: What was your sharpest lens, regardless of manufacturer or focal length?
philip_pj wrote:
What happens though, with such lenses, is that the viewer is forced to notice the extreme sharpness as having greater priority and importance than the image itself. The lens's acutance actually usurps the photo as the main attraction. The Sigma Syndrome is very popular.
that...that's not how photography works.
Mark Hamill told a story on Late Night with Seth Meyers where he lamented that his hair was not always wet between shots in a scene in Star Wars where Luke and the gang are trapped in a trash compactor, breaking continuity to which Harrison Ford responds "if the audience is looking at your hair, we are in a lot of trouble"
Basically if people are noticing the sharpness over anything else, your image is shitty to begin with. it's a skill issue.
Oct 07, 2026 at 07:50 PM
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