{"id":1941,"date":"2011-09-21T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2011-09-21T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:15:30","slug":"how-to-find-the-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2011\/09\/how-to-find-the-sweet-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find the &#8220;Sweet-Spot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1943\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2011\/09\/how-to-find-the-sweet-spot\/ef-50mm-f1-8-ii\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1943\" title=\"EF-50mm-f1-8-II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF-50mm-f1-8-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF-50mm-f1-8-II.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF-50mm-f1-8-II-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>This may hit some beginners like a ton of bricks so brace yourself for a mild disappointment here: your lens isn\u2019t wonderful at all f\/stops. What? \u00a0A Canon 50mm which opens to f\/1.8 isn\u2019t at its best when it\u2019s wide open. And by \u2018best\u2019, meaning <strong>when a lens it at its sharpest<\/strong>. There\u2019s something known as a lens\u2019 <strong>\u2018sweet spot\u2019<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lens Sweet Spot <\/strong>&#8211; The aperture at which it\u2019s at the sharpest and sometimes will even offer other things like better clarity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to give a blanket statement about the exact sweet spot for each lens because when you look up the chatter on the internet, there are such varying statements about, say, the sweet spot for the aforementioned Canon 50mm f\/1.8. Some say it\u2019s f\/2.2 while others claim that the sweet spot is f\/4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Good rule of thumb<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0a lens starts moving more towards perfection about two stops above its maximum aperture.<\/p>\n<p>So where an f\/1.8 can open all the way to f\/1.8, you don\u2019t actually want to shoot at f\/1.8 if you want optimal sharpness and clarity. Try moving up a couple stops to f\/2.2 or f\/2.8 and compare the results you achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may hit some beginners like a ton of bricks so brace yourself for a mild disappointment here: your lens isn\u2019t wonderful at all f\/stops. What? \u00a0A Canon 50mm which opens to f\/1.8 isn\u2019t at its best when it\u2019s wide open. And by \u2018best\u2019, meaning when a lens it at its sharpest. There\u2019s something known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-photography-insights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}