Hi Ian! Boosting the sharpness on the camera is a good idea, especially if you don't plan to do it in post processing. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for watching!
Thanks for this comparison! One comment, however: At 4:12 the claim is that the sharpness profile of the prime lens is flatter than that of the kit lens, but the graph doesn't support that claim except at the very widest f-stop. Especially from f8 to f16, the kit lens profile is flatter.
Hi! Thank you for your comment. Overall the profile of the prime lens is still more flat. The kit lens' profile is higher at the beginning. Also, the kit lens gets sharper with increasing the F-stop but the prime lens not so much so - this is what I meant by "more flat". But you are correct when you say that this is not very clear. Thank for pointing it out. Kind regards!
Thank you for an another interesting and well performed test! I have both the AF-S 50 mm f/1.8 and the AF-S DX 35 mm f/1,8, which I think are very good, especially when considering their price points. However, I tend to use the 18-55 mm kit lens more often, and I am very seldom not pleased with the results.
I got the VR II version of 18-55 and have also used the 50mm 1,8 but i often tend to use the newer 18-55, its AF is fast and has so good VR improvement and can take really SHARP photos and good overall video quality!
Always enjoy your style of presentation. For my own amusement, I studied your turning camera shots starting around 7:44 and just looked at the edge sharpness to see if that objects in the edges improved when they moved to the center..leaves, pillows. No. They were already sharp at the edges. So, naturally I'd like to know what you shot those with. But I'm not buying any more gear, just curious.
Hi! Thank you so much. Great to hear from you. The 7:44 turning camera was filmed with the Fuji XF 35mm F/1.4 R. This lens amazes me on a daily basis. Wonderful optics, indeed. Cheers!
Hi! The prime lenses are sharper and brighter because they are built for just one focal length. Components do not move around the way the do in zoom lenses. Their design is simpler and lens elements are more optimized (they don't have to deal with variable focal length). Kind regards!
There’s something I don’t grasp, i musr be missing something! You compared the 50mm FX prime with the DX kit zoom lens set at 50mm and both lenses on a D3400 camera, i.e. DX cameras. This ended up being a comparison of images between 75mm effective focal length for the prime and 50mm for the kit (zoom) lens. Was that an objective comparison? The settings on the cameras were the same but the images produced were not as they were of different focal lengths. It would have been more balanced if it was between a 35mm prime (35mm x 1.5 = 52.5mm) and the same kit lens set at 50mm.
Hi! Thank you for asking. It's the camera sensor size that determines the crop factor. This is independent of the lens, provided that the lenses you compare have the same focal length. In this case both lenses had the same focal length. Crop factor is calculated as diagonal of the 35 mm full frame divided by the diagonal of your sensor (CF = d(35) / d). It does not matter if you have a FX or DX lens if your camera sensor is a crop sensor (built for DX). Please let me know if you want me to explain in it more detail. Kind regards!
@@tom_photo You're right and that's what I had missed / confused! The lens creates the image the sensor just stores it as it has been created by the lens! The generated images from the two lenses were both from 50mm lenses, indeed! Thank you for the clarification!
Thanks for this video! I have the 18-55mm kit kens and I also have a 50mm prime lens, and use the zoom lens most of the time!
Hi! Thank you very much for watching. Both are very nice lenses. Kind regards!
I like the kit lens. I have sharpness set in camera +2 on SD Picture control and brings it a little closer to 50mm lens. Good comparison thank you.
Hi Ian! Boosting the sharpness on the camera is a good idea, especially if you don't plan to do it in post processing. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for watching!
Thanks for this comparison! One comment, however: At 4:12 the claim is that the sharpness profile of the prime lens is flatter than that of the kit lens, but the graph doesn't support that claim except at the very widest f-stop. Especially from f8 to f16, the kit lens profile is flatter.
Hi! Thank you for your comment. Overall the profile of the prime lens is still more flat. The kit lens' profile is higher at the beginning. Also, the kit lens gets sharper with increasing the F-stop but the prime lens not so much so - this is what I meant by "more flat". But you are correct when you say that this is not very clear. Thank for pointing it out. Kind regards!
Thank you for an another interesting and well performed test! I have both the AF-S 50 mm f/1.8 and the AF-S DX 35 mm f/1,8, which I think are very good, especially when considering their price points. However, I tend to use the 18-55 mm kit lens more often, and I am very seldom not pleased with the results.
Hi Krister! I agree with you that the kit lens is really nice; and you have every reason to like it. Thanks for watching and kind regards!
I got the VR II version of 18-55 and have also used the 50mm 1,8 but i often tend to use the newer 18-55, its AF is fast and has so good VR improvement and can take really SHARP photos and good overall video quality!
Hi Dragan! Thank you for providing feedback. I agree that this is a very nice lens. Kind regards!
Always enjoy your style of presentation. For my own amusement, I studied your turning camera shots starting around 7:44 and just looked at the edge sharpness to see if that objects in the edges improved when they moved to the center..leaves, pillows. No. They were already sharp at the edges. So, naturally I'd like to know what you shot those with. But I'm not buying any more gear, just curious.
Hi! Thank you so much. Great to hear from you. The 7:44 turning camera was filmed with the Fuji XF 35mm F/1.4 R. This lens amazes me on a daily basis. Wonderful optics, indeed. Cheers!
I no longer have my old D3100, but I still have that 50mm f/1.8G! 👍🏼
Hi! Indeed, this lens is worth holding on to. Thanks so much for watching!
So, is it because the prime lenses are fast ones compared with the wide to telephoto lenses and the elements involved in the later one?
Hi! The prime lenses are sharper and brighter because they are built for just one focal length. Components do not move around the way the do in zoom lenses. Their design is simpler and lens elements are more optimized (they don't have to deal with variable focal length). Kind regards!
There’s something I don’t grasp, i musr be missing something! You compared the 50mm FX prime with the DX kit zoom lens set at 50mm and both lenses on a D3400 camera, i.e. DX cameras. This ended up being a comparison of images between 75mm effective focal length for the prime and 50mm for the kit (zoom) lens. Was that an objective comparison? The settings on the cameras were the same but the images produced were not as they were of different focal lengths. It would have been more balanced if it was between a 35mm prime (35mm x 1.5 = 52.5mm) and the same kit lens set at 50mm.
Hi! Thank you for asking. It's the camera sensor size that determines the crop factor. This is independent of the lens, provided that the lenses you compare have the same focal length. In this case both lenses had the same focal length. Crop factor is calculated as diagonal of the 35 mm full frame divided by the diagonal of your sensor (CF = d(35) / d). It does not matter if you have a FX or DX lens if your camera sensor is a crop sensor (built for DX). Please let me know if you want me to explain in it more detail. Kind regards!
@@tom_photo You're right and that's what I had missed / confused! The lens creates the image the sensor just stores it as it has been created by the lens! The generated images from the two lenses were both from 50mm lenses, indeed! Thank you for the clarification!
@@pakko7416 Hi! Yes, you're is absolutely correct. Thank you very much for watching!
Thank you.
Hi Victor! Thank you very much for watching. Kind regards!