Chapter 11 How to Sharpen Your Images
If It’s Not Sharp, It’s Soft
Photographers are obsessed with sharpness. It’s more of a driving force in our photographic lives than you might think. It’s why we spend so much on lenses, and why buying a tack sharp lens is so important to us. We’ll pay double, triple as much for a similar lens if we think that this expensive lens is even a tiny bit sharper than the other lens. What’s really interesting to me is that we’ll spend all this money to get a really nice camera body, a super-sharp lens, but then we’ll go and apply noise reduction to our image, which blurs our nice sharp images to hide the noise. ...
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