I never really spent too much time worrying about researching the "sweet spot". I just chose the aperture that gave me the DoF I wanted.
That said, with the D800's stupidly high resolution, it really pays to hit the sweet spot. DS On 5 June 2012 06:53, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> >> optimizing aperture for >> sharpness is not the most productive place to spend my time and energy. > > Mark! > > Apologies for taking that out of context. :-) > > >> That I'm generally best optimizing the aperture for the picture, and not >> trying to optimize the aperture for MTF. > > Yes!! > > One of the best arguments for keeping one lens on your camera for a > goodly time and really learning it, is so you can empirically > determine your own personal subject-lens-camera-brain sweet spots. For > example I've learned that f/2.0 on the DA*55 is a really sweet spot > for beautiful portraits. > > I have never once pored over any MTF * charts for any Pentax lens, let > alone the DA*55. But I've taken thousands of frames with it and > analyzed and post-processed them until they hit my sweet spot for > beauty. > > -- > -bmw > > [*] or MTBF, or BMF -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
