Originally posted by Iksobarg Pixel peeper 101
I recently purchased not one but two Tamron18-250s. I've purchased two FA50/1.4s as well (ended up keeping them both :S
About the Tamrons: I wanted to check if one might be better than the other. One definitely has light dust particles inside, really slack zoom and the pics came out kinda so-so compared to my expectations. The second one looks less used, zoom action is nicely dampened has no dust and maybe I'm biased from the first lens but I believe the pics from the second one were a baby notch better but I cannot be certain.
I be peeping pixels...
does this make me a pixel peeper? and is it ever ok to be a pp? why? why?
help...
I guess pixel-peeping is not much worse than being very keen on test charts and MTF-graphs etc. For my own part, I prefer looking at pictures rather than pixels and graphs.
BUT if my pictures look *wrong*, I may well resort to pixel-peeping amongst others to look for noise-, distortion- and focus issues and the like.
The problem with pixel-peeping is that a) it is so easily done and b) everything will look *awful* when magnified beyond reason.
I suggest that you upload some 100% crops for others to study and comment upon.