From the course: Photography Foundations: Lenses
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Image quality
After considering what kind of lens you're looking for and what the options are from various lens manufacturers, you're ready to start looking at the specifics of your individual candidates. There is only one single feature that should be your make-or-break kind of deciding feature for a lens and that's image quality. No matter what extra features the lens has, if it can't deliver a good image, you should eliminate it from your range of choices. Evaluating image quality can be broken down into just a number of simple kind of steps and parameters. And here are the things that you want to consider. Sharpness. Sharpness is a tricky thing because there is no objective standard for sharpness. In optical circles, they often refer to sharpness as acceptable sharpness and what's acceptable to you is really all that matters. Contrast. And I am going to relate this to color also. Just how good does the lens deliver rich colors and nice contrast with a lot of pop. This again is a somewhat…
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Choosing a lens7m 11s
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Lenses for crop sensor cameras4m 25s
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Image quality4m 10s
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Lens features6m 42s
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Size and weight6m 29s
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Lens notes for Micro Four Thirds7m 6s
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Specialty lenses5m 9s
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Where to buy2m 54s
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Lens caps1m 28s
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