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Conclusions
Please review the individual conclusions for each of the tests.
Picking a winner
In picking a winner, the cost of the lens should not be considered, because each photographer has a different budget and different needs. One photographer may require satisfactory performance at low cost, while another may need top-flight performance at any reasonable cost. A lens review which includes cost as a consideration corrupts its conclusions by becoming subjective instead of objective. Disentangling the objective data from the subjective assessment of cost may be problematic. Such an approach is of little value to the photographer who can think.
Even an objective review suffers from some subjectivity, because certain decisions need to be made about the relative importance of lens characteristics. But at least this kind of subjectivity is based on objective data, and can be related to actual needs. diglloyd has made the following assumptions in picking a winner:
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Diglloyd DAP is DSLR-oriented, but also contains workflow and other topics. Much of the focus is on Canon and Nikon but also Pentax and Pentax medium format.
Special emphasis is placed on lens evaluation, focusing on Canon and Nikon and Sigma lenses, but with a few others like Rokinon/Samyang.
- Make better images by learning how to get the best results right away.
- Save money by choosing the right lens for your needs the first time, particularly some of the new Sigma Art lenses vs Nikon and Canon.
- Workflow discusses image organization, raw conversion and post processing. Many examples show processing parameters for direct insight into how the image was converted.
- Jaw-dropping image quality found nowhere else utilizing Retina-grade images up to full camera resolution, plus large crops [past 2 years or so].
- Real world examples with insights found nowhere else. Make sharper images just by understanding lens behavior you won’t read about elsewhere.
- Aperture series from wide open through stopped down, showing the full range of lens performance and bokeh.
- Optical quality analysis of field curvature, focus shift, sharpness, flare, distortion, and performance in the field.
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