"Sweet Spot" in canon 50mm 1.8

[noelie_023]

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para nako, nasobraan ug edge sharpening.
Better post a 100% crop without post processing when we need to discuss the sweet spot of the lens.

sobraan ra og edge sharpening sa ako mana cya gi sharpen... hmm.. so i guess. sharpening pa dyud sa photoshop kay murag mo sobra.. ma notice dyud diay ang edge sharpening.. thank you for your opinion. sir ^^

[Peenut]

Congrats bro noelie sa imung 50mm bro.. one of my dream lens para portraits...heheh

btw, I've been reading this thread and it really helps a lot..
thanks to those you shared their ideas..

[noelie_023]

Congrats bro noelie sa imung 50mm bro.. one of my dream lens para portraits...heheh

btw, I've been reading this thread and it really helps a lot..
thanks to those you shared their ideas..

hehe salamat bro.. hehe lagi mentinar lang ta ani hehe .. pero superb cya wui. ehhe gotta test this to the limit dyud. hehe. kay wala pa dyud ayu ko ka explore ani.. mananapa. hehe

thank you sa tanan ni contribute.. it really helps ^^

[cmontoya]

I repeat. Test your 50mm 1.8 at all apertures shooting the same static object (big enough so that a part of it is in the frame's corner, maybe a car? or bike?) focusing on the same part. It's better if you have a tripod. So you won't have to mess around too much with exposure, just put it on AV mode (brrr) and let the camera decide the exposure for you. I-evaluative matrix lang sa. Don't PP your shots. Compare center and corner (100% view). Then you can see for yourself where the sweet spot is.

Pero kung ganahan ka short-cut, dia ra: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II - Review / Test Report - Analysis

Look at the MTF chart (I don't know the technical aspects but this site made it easy to understand).

At 5.6, the center and border (corner) are at their highest but as you can see 2.8 is not bad if you need to shoot indoors (careful lang group pictures as the DOF is narrow).

Mahay gani ko ako gibaligya ako Nifty Fifty, sniff. My wife hates that lens kay:

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Aperture: 2.8

[sizzlingROBOT]

I heard about Manny Librodo sharpening technique for some time but I never tried to learn it or apply it in my images. For the sake of knowing the protocol of the technique, I searched it over the internet. Though it improves the image that I tried to sharpen using the technique drastically, I just find it too geeky.

[arisarnado]

Kung gusto ka medyo scientific na side, you could look at the 50mm's MTF chart.
At f/5.6 it at it's sharpest but magsugod na decline f/8.0 onwards.

EDIT:
Ah, gi-mention na diay ni Boss Carlo :P

[hayden]

Bro noelie to sharpen or not to is your own call (different photographer's perspective), keep shooting lang w/ your new lens and see what best suits you...

Sa una during my HDR noob days I used to apply Manny's sharpening technique (PS action downloaded from web) on my workflow regardless of what I'm shooting (grabeh gud ka-sharp ang mga barbwires/electric wires hanging), at the first few hundred shots it felt dam good and gives you a little swagger eventually one day I grew up and walked away from it

[georgecebu]

Bro noelie to sharpen or not to is your own call (different photographer's perspective), keep shooting lang w/ your new lens and see what best suits you...

Sa una during my HDR noob days I used to apply Manny's sharpening technique (PS action downloaded from web) on my workflow regardless of what I'm shooting (grabeh gud ka-sharp ang mga barbwires/electric wires hanging), at the first few hundred shots it felt dam good and gives you a little swagger eventually one day I grew up and walked away from it

sakto gyud bro...

[noelie_023]

@cmontoya mao lagi. sir.. ive tried sa different aperture, yeah at 5.6 its at it sharpes ( IMHO) yeah i guess im just frustated, kay mga image kitan nko sa flickr using 50mm, they are damn sharp, as in dli distractive na pag ka sharp, sa outdoor. suwayan pa koni sa outdoor, para ma test dyud nko. hehe

@aris mao lage. hehe
@hayden lagi shoot dyud ko ani permi. hehe usually kong kitlens ara ra ko mag manny style, pero ako sad gi testingn sa 50mm pero i notice na murag klar na ang mga line sa edge..

[CrasHBURN]

noeli: ML sharpening distractive? again, depending on the artist's eye... about your photo, i would have shot it at f2.2 (oh for the other thread, this is how you use SHOT) and it would look better... for me.. or at least let them face more on where the light is. I think you fired flash on this one. And also, since you are shooting 5.6... 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 IS lens would have been a better lens for this application. Dili paka mag atras2x.