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Originally Posted by Dartgod
What the hell does this even mean?
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Lenses are "ground" into shape, so at the consumer/prosumer and mass-production levels, Nikon was (generally speaking) considered to have a better grind than the others at the time. It's a fun argument to listen too, but they were awesome. I find that finding sites with MTF (modulation transfer function) charts are far better. Here...
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/u...ing-mtf-graphs
And "primes" are lenses with fixed focal lengths. No zoom.... And the "zoom" function of a lens, while nice, tends to take away some of the perfection of the lens. Back in the day it was very normal to buy a 35mm camera with the standard 50mm lens. Nowadays, it's almost unheard of.
Take a trip through Luminous Landscape (
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/index.shtml) and/or Fred Miranda's site (
http://www.fredmiranda.com) and there are a ton of interesting articles.
And if you spend a lot of time on boring conference calls, here's a site that can be very interesting to browse. Some of the work is so far out there that it's stupid, but a lot of it is pretty amazing too.. (
http://photo.net/)