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When you are shooting daylight landscapes, odds are you are stopped down to get a wide range of focus. In that case, there's absolutely no difference between a halfway decent zoom and a prime because they both will be outresolving the sensor. The Nyquist curve is a hard and fast limitation on the sharpness. Stop down a bit and you hit the line. Above that, nothing matters any more.
For landscapes, if that fine a degree of sharpness matters to you, you should be shooting 35mm film or better yet medium format. That will make a difference you can actually see.
Originally Posted by rhythmdevils /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't really care that much about that last little bit of sharpness unless I'm shooting landscapes. |
When you are shooting daylight landscapes, odds are you are stopped down to get a wide range of focus. In that case, there's absolutely no difference between a halfway decent zoom and a prime because they both will be outresolving the sensor. The Nyquist curve is a hard and fast limitation on the sharpness. Stop down a bit and you hit the line. Above that, nothing matters any more.
For landscapes, if that fine a degree of sharpness matters to you, you should be shooting 35mm film or better yet medium format. That will make a difference you can actually see.