more sharpness tests found here dombowerphoto.blogspot.com This should show you the amazingness of how sharp the nikon 50mm f1.4 lens is as you see i am zoomed in past 1:1 at 8:1 and then come out to full image. comparable to any macro level of sharpness photo taken outside with the nikon d300 1/250th of a second f5.6 iso 200 photo of Kim Rooney my girlfriend of the last 9 years photo by dom bower copyright www.dombower.com If you enjoy my videos please post them on your Facebook page and let others know about this channel, please subscribe and share on Facebook and twitter. Also check out the links below. If you really like my work please feel free to check out or buy a copy of the my PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK: Getting There With Photography: By Dom Bower www.blurb.com FACEBOOK Critique/advice GROUP www.facebook.com FACEBOOK PAGE www.facebook.com TWITTER page twitter.com WEBSITE www.dombower.com PHOTOGRAPHY CLOTHING Point and destroy clothing http For my AZ of Weightloss Tips check out: dombowerexercise.blogspot.co.uk And to donate to The Cancer Charity that I am doing a Trek for please visit www.justgiving.com
psico334
December 13, 2012 at 7:42 am
I thought she ‘d be much more pretty until the third zoom out.
jordansipa
December 13, 2012 at 8:42 am
Amazing
blickblocks
December 13, 2012 at 9:35 am
Actually the truth is that after a certain size of print the acceptable quality sharply declines. For example, a billboard is seen from so far away that 12MP is more than enough to create a great looking image. Look at a billboard close up, printers use certain algorithms to enlarge images that don’t even look like pixels.
Matt Hevesh
December 13, 2012 at 9:58 am
12mp is plenty high, unless you’re looking to print billboard sized.
dombower
December 13, 2012 at 10:07 am
this was 12mp
Matt Hevesh
December 13, 2012 at 10:57 am
This isn’t all about the lens. Yes, it’s sharp, but you can’t get that type of quality and detail unless you have a high megapixel censor in your camera. The large censor and high pixel count is what allows your lens performance to show its best.
masongalbraith
December 13, 2012 at 11:53 am
i have the old 1.8 and i love it, the only problem i have with it is the focusing at 1.8 is hard because when i look through my camera it looks in focus but when i look at the picture its out of focus but when you nail the focus its nice and sharp for the price
kmedina419
December 13, 2012 at 12:06 pm
that doesnt take skill the scenery they were in zoom into your pictures (if their sharp enough)
nomadmtb
December 13, 2012 at 12:23 pm
I can’t disagree more. Many great artists use Photoshop as a TOOL to convey their ARTISTIC VISION, not as a CRUTCH. Times change and so do art mediums.
lbomb8
December 13, 2012 at 1:21 pm
i understand where you are coming from about photoshop and how people abuse it. but, cmon, it’s fucking 2011, that’s how the post process works these days. instead of farting around in a dark room, you can do it with photoshop. and like that one guy said about ansel adams. are you saying he’s a terrible photographer for doing post work in a dark room? photoshop is the same thing, buddy.
Gharril
December 13, 2012 at 1:24 pm
haha so I am guessing Ansel Adams, who used to do post processing in the film dark room was somebody who couldn’t take a decent picture with his camera and had no artistic talent. Why don’t you do your research before you make a complete fool of yourself.
bratvlad
December 13, 2012 at 1:27 pm
wow, sky and a sun visible in the eye. definitely takes a skill to use the lens like this!
poisonblack83
December 13, 2012 at 2:23 pm
am getting a f1,8 , is it as good ?
Spaeckli
December 13, 2012 at 3:12 pm
is the 50mm 1.8 nearly as sharp as this one?
Bigrockets101
December 13, 2012 at 3:21 pm
I’ve looked at a lot of Ken Rockwell’s photographs and I’ve looked at some of his detractor’s photographs and his are still better. At least he has the courage to post his photos. I don’t see any of yours on the web anywhere Megasromanos. Post processing and photoshop are for people who can’t take a decent picture with the camera in the first place. Just another crutch for people with no artistic talent. So put up or shut up.
Andrew Lapierre
December 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm
@Roundthebendfilms hello sir, expected to see you here : P
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 3:44 pm
sure, go ahead – just give credit when due (if you think the comments are good and useful, if you intend to make a rant on it, I guess it’s better to stay anonymous).
dombower
December 13, 2012 at 4:26 pm
do you mind if i use your comments on the 50mm lens shaprness test on a blog post?
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 5:11 pm
If you want to read a serious book about photography there’s the books by Ansel Adams, another book called “Light, Science and Magic” as well as Scott Kelby has a set of more entertaining ones.
The istockphoto . com site also has a set of tutorials for people who want to know the serious professional criterias of working with digital imagery.
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Your first mistake is listening to Rockwell, the second is not learning about color theory and lighting – something far more important to know than silly photo tutorials (which are mostly just made to promote photoshop or the likes of it, or some excuse for lousy research by journalists who just sit on their asses all day and thus knows nothing about photography, but know rudimentary program skills any child can learn in five minutes)
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Overexposure is slightly better than underexposure – if you shoot in raw, there’s a better chance you get to keep the information and high contrast from a slightly overexposed image than an underexposed one (though correct exposure is the best) – do not set anything to -2, though you should try and set your camera to bracket and turn the exposure up or down if you notice the light meter is off.
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Second mistake: auto ISO. ISO boosting is a last resort for exposure (shutter and aperture comes first) – high ISO results in grainy pictures, in digital that means you get noise, which doesn’t look good at all, high noise results in reduced sharpness and reduced sharpness results in loss of color. Always shoot at the lowest ISO possible, by that you should keep the ISO down at 100 and only turn it up when absolutely necessary.
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 6:50 pm
First mistake is to boost the camera colors – to get the most out of your pictures, any in camera processing will make the quality deteriorate. This is why you should shoot in RAW since the RAW format adds the most opportunities for any post processing and turn off all in-camera sharpening and the like. The best you can do to get good colors is to understand lighting as well as getting the white balance correct the first time.
EctoplasmicResidue
December 13, 2012 at 7:17 pm
“I did the whole setup like rockwell tells on his website”
You’re WAY off, even though Rockwell knows a great deal about testing lenses, everyone knows he knows nothing about practical photography.