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Tack sharp images • any subject • any gear!

k-hawinkler

Well-known member
Please, let's have a thread dedicated to tack sharp images in your humble opinion. I'll kick it off with this one.




Olympus E-M1.2 + 300/4 PRO.


Thanks for participating, Karl-Heinz.
 

Knorp

Well-known member
Sorry K-H, really don't want to let you down here ...
But how or when do you qualify an image as 'tack sharp' ?
 

k-hawinkler

Well-known member
Sorry K-H, really don't want to let you down here ...
But how or when do you qualify an image as 'tack sharp' ?
Thanks Bart for asking. You be the judge for your images.
I don't want this to be a thread for arguing about whether an image is tack sharp or not. There is already such a thread on FM.

My own criteria are pretty simple. Most of my images are not tack sharp.
I know it when I see it, whether shot with Canon, Fuji, Leica, MFT, Nikon, Sony or any other brand of camera. That's why I placed this thread in the brand agnostic part of the forum.

But a few of my images don't show any subject movement fuzziness and the intended focus area is sharp with other areas OOF due to a narrow DOF used. I also consider the lens being used to be capable of delivering in principle sharp images pretty much from center to edges as most Pro lenses do.

How is this for a description of what I was thinking?
Please, let's have some fun and not get too scientific about this.
 

f6cvalkyrie

Well-known member
I did my best to have this cat as sharp as I can ...

The cat in the snow ...


Shot with E-M1.1 and Panasonic X zoom 40-175mm, 1/400s

C U,
Rafael
 

k-hawinkler

Well-known member
Great image Vivek. Thanks.

Black Mesa with the Sangre de Cristos near Taos, NM as backdrop.




Olympus E-M1.2 + SHG 300/2.8 (FF equivalent FOV 600/2.8).
 
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