Originally posted by Digitalis yes that is a thing amateurs worry inordinately about..
The start of the final paragraph of the article was:
"Naturally, buying a sharper lens is still only part of the story, and won't get you better pictures without learning and applying good photographic technique"
I didn't include it in my précis because it I thought it was such an obvious statement. ;-)
The editorial by Nigel Atherton on page three also says:
"Today's photographers are obsessed with sharpness in a way that we never used to be. Browse a collection of classic photos and you'll discover that few are as critically shrap as we'd expect nowadays; indeed Henri Cartier-Bresson once said "sharpness is a bourgeois concept". Does that make them less great? No."
Personally, the sharpness of a lens is only one of a list of things I think about when I am considering the purchase of a new lens and one that is usually quite a way down that list. But what do I know? I am an amateur after all.
Last edited by Nickrs; 07-21-2016 at 08:54 AM.
Reason: correct english.