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The camera body plays a big part in perceptions of lens sharpness if the autofocus functions are faulty.

Dust, dirt, water spots or smudges on the front or rear elements have greater deleterious impact than you might imagine, or the lens could have sustained damage in transit or during use in the field. The optics can be poor or faulty from the outset. If you get even one sharp image from a camera/lens combination, the odds are that any problems with sharpness after that result from improper technique.īeyond operator error, lens sharpness can be compromised in a number of ways. To assess a sharpness problem, eliminate the biggest variable-the photographer-first. What causes a photographer to question his or her camera or lenses? Sharpness is usually the first concern, and the complaint I hear most about. The LensAlign system set up for focus testing. Now, in the era of highly capable, sophisticated DSLRs, you can quickly and painlessly test the performance of your equipment, make adjustments, if necessary, and work with assurance that your camera/lens combination is at the top of its game. For years I conducted complex, painstaking comparative lens tests for my journals, The Natural Image and The Digital Image. If you’re going to invest time, effort and money on any subject, you need to have complete confidence in the camera and lenses in your bag. Nature photographers need to be sure their cameras and lenses are working at optimum levels before they head into the field-or the air. We determined that the camera’s actual focus was significantly behind the area selected in the autofocus sensors his aerial views of features on the landscape were actually sharp somewhere underground! So we improvised some tests of the camera using the fold of a map as the focus point.

He suspected the new camera was the culprit. We had paid a prime fee for a hot-air balloon trip over the Namib Desert that morning, and every one of his captures from the shoot was out of focus. He had obtained the camera the day before he boarded a plane to Africa. On a recent photo safari, a colleague asked me to review the images he had captured with his brand-new, top-of-the-line DSLR and matching high-end lens.

#DSLR TEST CHART ISO#

Canon PowerShot G10 at 1⁄1,000 second, ƒ/5 and ISO 80. An example of light falloff when shooting into the sky.

Dslr test chart