Madonna Altar in the Alley. Boulder, Colorado, 2016
How many of you have used results from Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) charts to pick a new lens?
Come on. Fess up. We ALL have, right?
The big question is: Does any of that really matter?
The answer: It depends…and it doesn’t matter nearly as much as you think it might.
[For example…in the case of the above street image it is the content, rather than sharpness, that is key to its success (or lack thereof), so MTF charts are irreverently irrelevant. In fact, the photo is an iPhone shot–top quality lens there, eh!?]
For a really great, informative, and fun-to-peruse article on this very topic, I refer you enthusiastically to Things You Didn’t Want to Know About Zoom Lenses by the lens expert Roger Cicala of the fairly famous Lensrentals.com website.
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