All Questions
3 questions
12
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How do lenses vary in contrast?
I was reading a review of a wide-angle lens, and the review opined that the lens had impaired contrast wide open. Optically, what's happening here? How does the light passing through the lens lose ...
- 853
9
votes
4
answers
3k
views
Is it possible for a lens to produce too much contrast?
I came across a complaint that a certain lens produces too much contrast. The lens was described as rendering "cartoonish" contrast when shooting a portrait with diffused light from a window, where ...
- 144k
6
votes
3
answers
2k
views
For MTF, why does 10 represent contrast while 30 represent resolution?
I'm trying to learn to read MTF charts. Everything is making sense to me, except why most explanations of MTF will refer to the 10 l/mm line as a measure of contrast while referring to the 30 l/mm ...
- 3,308
Hot Network Questions
- What does, "there is no truth in him" mean in John 8:44?
- Find a fraction's parent in the Stern-Brocot tree
- Proving that negative axioms don't break canonicity
- How defensible is it to attribute "Sinim" in Isa 49:12 to China?
- How to distinguish between silicon and boron with simple equipment?
- Update object inside array inside another JSON object
- If someone falsely claims to have a Ph.D. on the jacket of a book and they profit from that claim, is that criminal fraud?
- What is "B & S" a reference to in Khartoum?
- Why did Crimea’s parliament agree to join Ukraine in 1991?
- Significance of "shine" vs. "burn" in "All of You"
- Are pigs effective intermediate hosts of new viruses, due to being susceptible to human and avian influenza viruses?
- Convert pipe delimited column data to HTML table format for email
- Does DOS require partitions to be aligned at a cylinder boundary?
- How could a city build a circular canal?
- How did Jahnke and Emde create their plots
- Reorder indices alphabetically in each term of a sum
- The coherence of physicalism: are there any solutions to Hempel's dilemma?
- Why isn't there an "exterior algebra"-like structure imposed on the tangent spaces of smooth manifolds?
- Can this circular 10-pin connector be identified (in the hopes of finding a better equivalent)?
- The ten most fundamental topics in geometric group theory
- Chain falls behind rear sprockets - safeguards?
- Longest bitonic subarray
- Name the book with human embassy on small island
- Showing QGIS Print layout extent in map as polygon