Distinctive looks of cameras and lenses (Page 3): Many Leica lenses, including some of those designed for Panasonic LUMIX, also have unique optical ”personalities.”...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

CHG_CANON wrote:

Anyone who has shot the Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX will tell you this lens has a distinct look too. It's not BS simply because you've never used one of these unique lenses. But certainly, 'character' does get an oversell in general conversation and application.

Many Leica lenses, including some of those designed for Panasonic LUMIX, also have unique optical ”personalities.”

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

MrBob wrote:

When going through the archives late at night look... (show quote)

Two of my Nikons have the old CCD sensors. Definitely a different look than my CMOS sensor Nikons. Color rendition is different. Can’t say any are better, just different in their own way.

mundy-F2 Loc: Chicago suburban area

CHG_CANON wrote:

Anyone who has shot the Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX will tell you this lens has a distinct look too. It's not BS simply because you've never used one of these unique lenses. But certainly, 'character' does get an oversell in general conversation and application.

Same is true of the Nikkor AF-S 17-35MM F/2.8 D ED.
Mundy

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

I always wondered about this with various sensors.
You can't change sensors like you can with film. And each brand of camera has it's own processing by their engineers. So all sensors are not the same?
Well anyway, I'm not quite sure what I am talking about.

So, if you use Kodak gold 100 film in all your different cameras, will the pictures be the same?

So using the same film in different cameras will give the same color, contrast, sharpness, etc.?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

kenArchi wrote:

I always wondered about this with various sensors.
You can't change sensors like you can with film. And each brand of camera has it's own processing by their engineers. So all sensors are not the same?
Well anyway, I'm not quite sure what I am talking about.

So, if you use Kodak gold 100 film in all your different cameras, will the pictures be the same?

So using the same film in different cameras will give the same color, contrast, sharpness, etc.?

Color film is subject to the glass in the lens, and which frequencies of light are transmitted while others are partially filtered.

Lenses vary considerably. The same color film will record colors differently with different lens brands. This is most noticeable with a slide film. Negatives are similar to digital raw files, in that post-processing plays a huge role.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

burkphoto wrote:

Color film is subject to the glass in the lens, and which frequencies of light are transmitted while others are partially filtered.

Lenses vary considerably. The same color film will record colors differently with different lens brands. This is most noticeable with a slide film. Negatives are similar to digital raw files, in that post-processing plays a huge role.

A couple of years ago, after I got my Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 G VR zoom, I noticed that it didn't seem to render color as well as my other lenses. So I crank up the saturation one notch when using it in order to get similar results.

And yes, my D200 with its CCD sensor was noticeably different from my D300 with its CMOS sensor and from my later cameras. I didn't know as much about Picture Controls or post processing when using those cameras and haven't taken the time to go back and see how much of the difference could be dialed out.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

larryepage wrote:

A couple of years ago, after I got my Nikkor 24-12... (show quote)

I had an early 2000s version of the 24-120. It had a lot of different elements and wasn’t Nikon’s best effort. But then, I was using the D100, probably the least responsive digital camera I’ve ever used. I was happy to sell that and move on.