Thursday, June 3, 2010

Focusing - revisited (not again!)








I am not sure why people are so hung up on sharpness. Some calls it "pixel peeping." There are so much being debated daily, if not hourly, about which sensors outperforms which.

Apparently, there are so much technical garverbage that unless you are more or less a optical physics nerd, you will be few steps behind when reading these guys spew one BS after another.

I have said this before, but I really don't care how sharp the pictures are. I have a friend, who is a pediatric pathologist who looks at tissue slides all day long in microscope says that sharpness is over rated, even in the field of microscopic pathology.

Or is it? Is it really over rated? I am not sure. It is just that I have not heard a good explanation as to why sharper pictures are always better than not so sharp ones. I don't need a detailed explanation. Just one liner . . . . . Or give me a paragraph, or a book. Can somebody explain that to me???





Pentax K-7
Lensbaby composer with double glass (50mm FL)
1/1600 @ ~f/2.8
-0.7 ev
ISO 200
RAW

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