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ameerat42
16-04-2022, 3:35pm
The title of this thread is the same as that featured in this YouTube video by Ted Forbes.

Sometimes, lens acquisition or discussion in general is "based on"... - hearsay, even.

One thing I DID NOT know was that MTF charts for lenses are mostly not based on the
actual lens but on the theoretical design. So that :pircannon: that
out of the sky for me :rolleyes:

And there's some interesting info on photography in general and a bit of Photoshop.

And MTF? - Well, a variant of Optical Transfer Function (OTF) and quite technical, and even
after you think you've got a hang of it, you soon forget again. Search "mtf charts" for a start.

Now, with less ado than could happen, here's the video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3j5e4Xxtk&t=728s