Recently, I have been told that the iso I used for some of my shots were too high. Well, unless you are a brain surgoen or a guy who sleeps with tripod/monopod, camera shakes as a result of less than ideal shooting situation is always a big hurdle, even with IS/VR activated. Without any sort of image stabilization, I would always try to shoot at shutter speed of at least 1/60, preferably 1/100 or higher to double sure that my day would not be ruined by my shaky hands. I would trade a shaky shot for a noisy one any day and the world is never perfect anyway! But that is just my opinion :)
Lately I have worked a lot with the 50mm f/1.4 and what I have found is with the aperture wide open (1.4-1.8), images produced are very soft with a fair amount of bokeh chromatic abberation. Stopping down to f/2.8 or narrower produces much better results but increases the depth of field for portaiture work. Shooting landscape with the 50mm prime presents a bigger challenge as I found out during our trip to Sydney and Melbourne. During the whole trip, I sticked to my beloved 50mm prime while Jin has the zoom lens. Using f/13 and above produces softer images somehow when viewed at 100%. But of course, these situations vary with different lenses, some expensive zoom lens I believe are pretty sharp wide open but then I will have to save more money to find that out :P
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Noisy or Shaky
Posted by kimtojin at 11:00 PM
Labels: Photographicadict :)
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3 comments:
The 50mm prime is definitely the lens for portraiture work. It's just so sharp and crisp. But I've found it to a little too limiting for travel. My 18-200mm is just so much more flexible. Not as sharp, but I at least get pictures I would miss otherwise. There's always a trade-off. If only they can make zooms as sharp as primes!!!
Welcome back :) Yea, I wish my zoom lens is as sharp as the prime and most of all, open up to at least f/2.8 hehe...wishful thinking. Canon finally came out with a similarly capable 18-200mm zoom last year but it was just too pricy for another non-L lens. I think I know what I want for my next lens...an EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS, although I might have to sell one of my kidney for that lol!
Well you really only need ONE kidney.... :)
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