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Some clarification (Reply to this comment)
by bogrod
You posted: "To get sharp and well-saturated pictures, one should use a prime lens as opposed to a zoom. Prime lenses are those with fixed focal lengths. The reason for the sharpness is because prime lenses do not need a large number of glass elements to focus at something, zooms usually do."
I think it's misleading to tell people that, in order to get sharp and well saturated images, that they need a prime instead of a zoom. Virtually any zoom ever made, set at an aperture of f/5.6 to f/8, can create an image that is as sharp and well-saturated as the best prime. And some zooms do well at apertures even wider than this range.
Most modern lenses, even the most hideous of consumer junk, are capable of extreme *sharpness*. What dogs most modern cheap-o zooms is the other criteria involved in evaluating a lens. Which would be virtually everything else - light falloff, distortion, chromatic abberations (which is a big problem given today's digital sensors) and especially flare. Those areas tend to be where a good prime puts a zoom to shame.
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Apr 03 '08
5:33 pm PDT
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Nicely done (Reply to this comment)
by Howard_Creech,  in Electronics
The 35/1.4 Nikkor has always been one of my favorite lenses.
Howard
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Jun 22 '02
10:11 pm PDT
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