The images below have been temporarily removed while this experiment is conducted on a different forum with a more mainstream demographic. I\'ll post the results when they are available and I\'ll put back the images then.
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Following a discussion in another thread I became interested in finding out how good people are at differentiating between the lenses of two different lens manufacturers.
We\'ve had many threads where people had to match images to specific lenses and the results have been varying. This is a far more simple test - is there objectively a \"Zeiss\" or a \"Canon\" or a \"Leica\" rendering style - i.e can you associate a certain look with a lens manufacturer? So this is not about which lens is better or which you like more. It\'s just to see if people can consistently tell the two brands apart.
I\'m going to post six pairs of images. For each pair one is an image shot with a Canon lens and one with a Zeiss lens. The challange is to for each pair guess which one is the Canon and which one is the Zeiss. The two shots that form a pair have been shot at the same aperture and with the same nominal focal length (there is some variation in actual FL per lens). A total of 9 different lenses - four Canons and five Zeiss lenses were used. The images have been processed identically. The order of the images has been generated by a random generator.
I\'ll be posting an identical thread in a Canon-only forum to see if the average (i.e not lens fanatics like us here in the alt forum) photographer can pick out the brands. I\'ll give the answers in two days or after 20-30 people have guessed.
To compare the images, open the pairs in separate browser tabs and flip between them.
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Following a discussion in another thread I became interested in finding out how good people are at differentiating between the lenses of two different lens manufacturers.
We\'ve had many threads where people had to match images to specific lenses and the results have been varying. This is a far more simple test - is there objectively a \"Zeiss\" or a \"Canon\" or a \"Leica\" rendering style - i.e can you associate a certain look with a lens manufacturer? So this is not about which lens is better or which you like more. It\'s just to see if people can consistently tell the two brands apart.
I\'m going to post six pairs of images. For each pair one is an image shot with a Canon lens and one with a Zeiss lens. The challange is to for each pair guess which one is the Canon and which one is the Zeiss. The two shots that form a pair have been shot at the same aperture and with the same nominal focal length (there is some variation in actual FL per lens). A total of 9 different lenses - four Canons and five Zeiss lenses were used. The images have been processed identically. The order of the images has been generated by a random generator.
I\'ll be posting an identical thread in a Canon-only forum to see if the average (i.e not lens fanatics like us here in the alt forum) photographer can pick out the brands. I\'ll give the answers in two days or after 20-30 people have guessed.
To compare the images, open the pairs in separate browser tabs and flip between them.
Following a discussion in another thread I became interested in finding out how good people are at differentiating between the lenses of two different lens manufacturers.
We\'ve had many threads where people had to match images to specific lenses and the results have been varying. This is a far more simple test - is there objectively a \"Zeiss\" or a \"Canon\" or a \"Leica\" rendering style - i.e can you associate a certain look with a lens manufacturer? So this is not about which lens is better or which you like more. It\'s just to see if people can consistently tell the two brands apart.
I\'m going to post six pairs of images. For each pair one is an image shot with a Canon lens and one with a Zeiss lens. The challange is to for each pair guess which one is the Canon and which one is the Zeiss. The two shots that form a pair have been shot at the same aperture and with the same nominal focal length (there is some variation in actual FL per lens). A total of 9 different lenses - four Canons and five Zeiss lenses were used. The images have been processed identically. The order of the images has been generated by a random generator.
I\'ll be posting an identical thread in a Canon-only forum to see if the average (i.e not lens fanatics like us here in the alt forum) photographer can pick out the brands. I\'ll give the answers in two days or after 20-30 people have guessed.
To compare the images, open the pairs in separate browser tabs and flip between them.
Following a discussion in another thread I became interested in finding out how good people are at differentiating between the lenses of two different lens manufacturers.
We\'ve had many threads where people had to match images to specific lenses and the results have been varying. This is a far more simple test - is there objectively a \"Zeiss\" or a \"Canon\" or a \"Leica\" rendering style - i.e can you associate a certain look with a lens manufacturer? So this is not about which lens is better or which you like more. It\'s just to see if people can consistently tell the two brands apart.
I\'m going to post six pairs of images. For each pair one is an image shot with a Canon lens and one with a Zeiss lens. The challange is to for each pair guess which one is the Canon and which one is the Zeiss. Each pair has been shot at the same aperture and with the same nominal focal length (there is some variation in actual FL per lens). The images have been processed identically. The order of the images has been generated by a random generator.
I\'ll be posting an identical thread in a Canon-only forum to see if the average (i.e not lens fanatics like us here in the alt forum) photographer can pick out the brands. I\'ll give the answers in two days or after 20-30 people have guessed.
To compare the images, open the pairs in separate browser tabs and flip between them.
