{"id":1002795,"date":"2011-09-29T06:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T11:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002795"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T11:58:30","slug":"how-sharp-is-the-sharpest-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/photography\/2011\/09\/29\/how-sharp-is-the-sharpest-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sharp is the Sharpest Lens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assume ideal conditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stable Tripod<\/li>\n<li>Off-camera shutter release<\/li>\n<li>Excellent focus<\/li>\n<li>Non-moving target<\/li>\n<li>ISO 100<\/li>\n<li>Excellent lighting<\/li>\n<li>Still air<\/li>\n<li>Aperture below the camera&#8217;s diffraction limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is any lens \/camera combination going to be able to resolve details that are a pixel&#8217;s width apart? If not, how close do the best one&#8217;s get?<\/p>\n<p>Of course different cameras have different pixel sizes. Larger cameras usually have larger pixels. So perhaps the answer should be measured in microns. How many microns can the best lenses resolve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assume ideal conditions: Stable Tripod Off-camera shutter release Excellent focus Non-moving target ISO 100 Excellent lighting Still air Aperture below the camera&#8217;s diffraction limit Is any lens \/camera combination going to be able to resolve details that are a pixel&#8217;s width apart? If not, how close do the best one&#8217;s get? Of course different cameras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003909,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002795\/revisions\/1003909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}