50mm Shoot out

I had some time on my hand as I was looking at the latest version of Photo-Mechanic. I started this shoot-out just to try the new version updates uploading portion to SmugMug. As I was sitting at my desk taking some test shots, I got the idea to see how each of my lenses at 50mm compares.

There has also been quite a bit of talk about how an image taken with a D3/D700 in DX mode can compare to one in FX mode. I have included in this test two lenses shot in the DX crop mode of the D700. As anyone can see I have far to many lenses in this lenght for anyone to own. Sad to say this doesn't even cover them all. These are all 100% crops sized and send from Photo Mechanic using the included jpg inside of the NEF file. They were all hand-held.

The camera was set in Aperture priority mode and interesting enough even though the lite was constant the camera with difference lenses did select shutter speeds. The lenses test are as follows.

Nikon 50mm F1.4 D
Nikon 50mm AFS F1.4G
Nikon 24-70 AFS F2.8 G ED
Tamron 28-70 AF SP XR Di


I had hoped to also show the difference between the DX and the FX modes on the D700. Since my realy purpose of the test was to see how Photo Mechanic could reliably transfer files to Smugmug, I soon discovered that it was unable to transfer those files shot in the DX crop mode correctly. The framing was off on each of those.

Now onto the pictures.










Take a good luck and you can click on each image to go to the SmugMug page where you can look at each of the files in any size that you will like.

Take your best guess, I will upload the answers in another blog post shortly.