lens professioal v consumer ??

Being a bit bored I though I would test the difference between the two. Very unscientific but for my own satisfaction really and have to say the difference is remarkable.

Ok

Apart from cropping and altering the colour as the pictures were rather orange nothing else altered, just to make that point.

So what I did was use the Nikon D810 camera with a wired remote Yongnuo MC-36b on a moman tabletop tripod and pano head. THis was to avoid any possible camera shake by me.

The consumer lens was a Nikon afs 24-120mm f3.5-5.6 G lens at 70mm in Aperture mode wide open

The Pro lens was the Nikon afs- 24-70mm f2.8G wide open in Aperture .Again set at 70mm to make sure the lenses were equal

The target was the SpyderLenCal at a distance of 78 inches away on the same level as the camera. Camera set at sxame point on target

Ok that was the setup so how did the lenses differ?

The first was the consumer lens and below the professional lens

consumer lens



professional lens




Did I fine tune either first ? no I did this test again on the Nikon D800 without any fine camera tuning done and got the same result.

So to me paying that bit more for a professional quality lens is worth it. However that consumer lens still produces a good picture in the real world. Depends on what one considers acceptable

This as I said at the start it was for my own curiosity and not to be taken for anything else

Re: lens professioal v consumer ??

I think something went wrong with your experiment realspeed.

Depth of field definitely, colour rendition maybe, but sharpness differential between the two lenses would not be noticeable to the human eye, on your terms.

Re: lens professioal v consumer ??

retest @ 12 ft



Just had a lot of replies and thoughts about it on another camera site
Looked it up and back in 2006 when I bought it the UK equivilant price from HK dollars was £49
Only got it out for a bit of fun really to see how bad it was. Normally it just sits in my peli case and never comes out