Q3 Zone Focusing

[Mikep996]

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Pixel peeping may be fun or interesting sometimes but people don't generally view photographs with a magnifying glass or stand inches from a large print hanging on a wall.   I have done a lot of fooling around with cropping on my Q2 and UNLESS the goal IS pixel peeping, there is no useful difference in a photo taken with the Q2 cropped to an equivalent of 90mm vs one taken with a 90mm lens on my M10R, regardless of the subsequent print size.  Of course, that is the whole point of the Q2...and it's based on normal viewing distance.  For that matter, I have an 16x20 (approx) black and white print of a section of Stonehenge (below) on the wall that appears very sharp..taken with an iPhone X. 

Of course, if the purpose of the photo is to encourage close-up "study" of small details, that would be a different thing - sort of like the difference between viewing Monet's "Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge" and Bosch's "The Last Judgement."

.Zone focusing is similar - under typical "street" conditions, it can provide sufficient sharpness to look sharp at normal viewing distances at any size print.  But, of course, if you pixel peep/stand very close you will see that the object(s) that only the objects at the lens's focus point are truly sharp.

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Edited July 14, 2024 by Mikep996

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