About the "Best": I see so many posts where the OP is looking for the "Best" or the "Sharpest" camera or lens. That term is subjective to begin with & means different things to...

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

I see so many posts where the OP is looking for the "Best" or the "Sharpest" camera or lens. That term is subjective to begin with & means different things to different people.... Most any gear out there can deliver good, sharp images is the shooter knows the limitations of the gear & uses that knowledge to their advantage... The gear alone won't improve their images, but knowledge of how to use it will...Knowledge trumps gear every time IMHO....

Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

Screamin Scott wrote:

I see so many posts where the OP is looking for the "Best" or the "Sharpest" camera or lens. That term is subjective to begin with & means different things to different people.... Most any gear out there can deliver good, sharp images is the shooter knows the limitations of the gear & uses that knowledge to their advantage... The gear alone won't improve their images, but knowledge of how to use it will...Knowledge trumps gear every time IMHO....

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Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

As an aside, if there was a "best", wouldn't we all have it ?

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Screamin Scott wrote:

I see so many posts where the OP is looking for the "Best" or the "Sharpest" camera or lens. That term is subjective to begin with & means different things to different people.... Most any gear out there can deliver good, sharp images is the shooter knows the limitations of the gear & uses that knowledge to their advantage... The gear alone won't improve their images, but knowledge of how to use it will...Knowledge trumps gear every time IMHO....

For sure.

And I see so many unfortunate threads where folks HAVE to have a "FF" so that they can "take advantage of low light and image quality" improvements...when really...an APS-C would do just fine and indeed, today's APS-C is much better than a FF from just 5 years ago.

I've seen too many stunning images produced by not only entry level DSLR's but crappy point and shoots to succumb to that (again) :)

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

The "best" is sooo situational. It all dependes on what you are shooting, under what conditions, how you relate to a camera body, etc...

Further the focus on one asspect, like "sharpest" or "IQ" or "sensor" just misses the whloe idea of photography being about balancing many different elements so that no one element is constantly supreme.

johnmowry Loc: Northern Indiana, USA

Over many years in big-ticket industrial sales, I saw that it is very easy for the evaluators to get the "right" result (the one their boss wants) by manipulating the ratings and weighting of each of the myriad factors used to determine the "best" choice. I see many UHH responders trying to get the poster to decide what factors are most important to them, so they can help them reach a good decision.

I also recall from the dim distant past doing a paper for an econ class about optimizing versus "satisficing" (the good enough option). If we all demanded the "best", we'd all have $45k Hasselblads.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

I've seen far more photographers whose images would benefit the most from increased efforts to master composition, exposure, lighting, or effective use of DOF, than they will benefit from having the lens which tests out as "the best" in a lab test, or a body that has an AF .065 milliseconds faster than another.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Screamin Scott wrote:

As an aside, if there was a "best", wouldn't we all have it ?

Screamer, now THAT is leaving you open! :lol:
And yes, most of us do!!!
SS

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

I have a lot of different lenses, but there is no one "best" among them.... My telephoto lenses won't shoot wide angle scenes very well, etc.... The point I'm making is that there is no one "best" lens, that is like looking for the "Holy Grail", an exercise in futility...

SharpShooter wrote:

Screamer, now THAT is leaving you open! :lol:
And yes, most of us do!!!
SS

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Best for you, probably isn't best for him, and not best for me.
I'm glad I have a brain and don't have to rely on others to make up my mind. :hunf:

Oh, and yeah...
Unwatch.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Photographer Jim wrote:

I've seen far more photographers whose images would benefit the most from increased efforts to master composition, exposure, lighting, or effective use of DOF, than they will benefit from having the lens which tests out as "the best" in a lab test, or a body that has an AF .065 milliseconds faster than another.

+ 1.

Cappy Loc: Wildwood, NJ

Like buying a great set of pans doesn't make you a chef, knowing how & which pan can.

Screamin Scott wrote:

I see so many posts where the OP is looking for the "Best" or the "Sharpest" camera or lens. That term is subjective to begin with & means different things to different people.... Most any gear out there can deliver good, sharp images is the shooter knows the limitations of the gear & uses that knowledge to their advantage... The gear alone won't improve their images, but knowledge of how to use it will...Knowledge trumps gear every time IMHO....

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

Screamin Scott wrote:

I see so many posts where the OP is looking for the "Best" or the "Sharpest" camera or lens. That term is subjective to begin with & means different things to different people.... Most any gear out there can deliver good, sharp images is the shooter knows the limitations of the gear & uses that knowledge to their advantage... The gear alone won't improve their images, but knowledge of how to use it will...Knowledge trumps gear every time IMHO....

Scott,

Since yesterday morning that was true, yesterday evening that became mote. According to Intel advertising an out of focus image can be brought into pin sharp focus with the touch of a finger. And the finger can selectively sharpen a single element in the photograph. (As seen on TV).

My finger will have to prove it before I purchase a new computer.

Michael G

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Mr PC wrote:

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Brian in Whitby Loc: Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Some times you don't need the "Best" there is such a thing as "Good Enough!"