NIKON £100 and £1200 lens can you tell the differance?

[fixedimage]

Oh Jeez, is everyone so fixated with scientific mumbo jumbo they have forgotten what taking pictures is about?

Straycat - I see EXACTLY what you were on about.

Everyone who thinks they need to hide their light under a bushel because they don't have the latest Nanbread technology in their bag can come out and realise that their cheapo lens will still produce some worthwhile pictures. THAT WAS THE POINT. Nothing else...you all had to look hard to tell the difference. That was with the two pictures side by side. Now take one and put it on YOUR sideboard in a frame....take the other to Auntie Sheila's in John O'Groats and put it in a frame on HER sideboard...then tell them apart.

The first one has too red a skin tone, but I think that was done in the confuser, not in camera. I think the picture of the bike is more telling...lack of contrast and some flare creeping in, but for a ton of squids it doesn't do a bad job does it.

Besides, anyone who rides a Kwacker doesn't deserve anything better than a kit lens!

So you started a thread to tell us we can take "some" good pictures with a kit lens?

Thank you, I would never have realised otherwise.

 

[joescrivens]

is this aimed at me?if so i dont see the point of your trolling comment and insult.

interesting you say that i insulted you by saying you were missing the point when ......

thats not the point

and

true,but not the point.

Everyone saw the difference so you had no point. It didn't take more than seconds to see which lens was which so in answer to your question:

NIKON £100 and £1200 lens can you tell the difference?

the answer is YES, very obviously by all the posts in the thread.

So what was your point? That you can take nice photos with your kit lens? Why not just say that then, seems irrelevant to bring the prime into the equation when the results show obviously that the prime is better.

 

[neil_g]

It took me less than two seconds to notice the difference.....

have to agree, it was fairly obvious to be honest

 

[odd jim]

I preferred the colours of the first photo TBH!

 

[Cistron]

NIKON £100 and £1200 lens can you tell the difference?

the answer is YES, very obviously by all the posts in the thread.

That's because the question should have been: Do you mind the difference? Or, Is it worth the difference?

In the end, if you don't want to pay the difference, but want the quality, buy manual focus lenses. Either oldie-goldies or Samyang.

 

[Richard King]

Sometimes the differences are not confined to the finished photograph

- speed of focus
- will the lens die on you
- build and construction
- how well it bounces

yada yada

Which is also why a pro will spend the $$ on the better built lens

 

[The23rdman]

What was the question again??

 

[gingerweasel]

It was just a bit of fun.

you all had to look hard to tell the difference

Although I have to say it didn't take more than a couple of seconds to spot the differences, even for my untrained eye.

 

[Lensflare]

But only because they were side by side. I couldn't see both pictures in that time, my confuser isn't big enough to show them. It took me 30 seconds to actually see both pictures, let alone look at them.

I think the reason behind Straycat starting the thread (and he is a professional, so he does spend ££££s on lenses) is that for the price of a meal out, the el cheapo is no longer an el cheapo and people should prehaps not become so fixated on gear and spend more effort on technique and lighting and, just being there.

For a light, compact, take one lens with you option the cheap lens is a very capable performer. It is something professionals care more about than amateurs, because buying a lens isn't a whim, it is a business decision. If I can get away with keeping my business costs down, I will. As a full time of pro of over 25 years, I don't waste money on expensive lenses simply because I am a pro. If it won't earn me any more money, I don't buy one. Simple as that and I make do with the cheaper version. Quite a lot of my work is done on acompact, because I can do the job perfectly adequately on it. Had plenty of front covers shot on my compact, the reader doesn't know.

 

[andya700]

Use both lenses at 85mm, same shutter speed/ISO/f3.5, then compare them straight out of the camera, and then with the same PP.