For most modern photographers, the thought of shooting a vintage prime instead of a new autofocus lens is a non-starter. If this applies to you, do you think you could tell the difference in a blind comparison? I would be willing to bet not. In this article, I am going to present a series of side-by-side comparisons of photographs taken on one of two lenses: the $1,000 Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 and a $50 Nikon 50mm f/2 Ai. Given that the two lenses have different focal lengths, simply changing out the lens while the camera was mounted on a tripod wouldn’t work. As such, all of the comparisons were made of the same vantages but taking steps forward or backward and left or right. The result is that the Sony 55mm lens isn’t simply the same image with a smaller viewing angle; instead, the images will be similar but differ just enough to not have the viewing angle give them away. Further, for each comparison, there will be a slider comparison of the whole image and then a second slider comparison of the exact same cropped section of the frame. Given that each of the comparisons will […]
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