Shopping Guide
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This is how it works:
On the left you choose the criteria for camera or lens test samples that you would like to compare. As soon as your choices render enough candidates, the button "compare images" is activated.
Lens Tests:
Lens Center Wide Open - shows the center of our Trust Your Eyes test chart at the maximum aperture of each lens candidate.
Lens Center Sharpest - shows the center of our Trust Your Eyes test chart at the aperture rendering the sharpest result. Our full Trust Your Eyes lens tests in contrast to the shopping guide contain all full f-stop values allowing to evaluate the difference of the sharpness from f-stop to f-stop.
Lens Border Wide Open - shows the border area of our Trust Your Eyes test chart at the maximum aperture of each lens candidate. Many lenses perform not as good in the image corners/borders, especially at wide apertures.
Lens Border sharpest - shows the border area of our Trust Your Eyes test chart at the aperture rendering the sharpest result. Many lenses perform not as good in the image corners/borders.
Camera Tests:
Details at low ISO - shows a part of our test chart with lots of fine detail at the lowest possible ISO rating (no "ISO expansion" values) for various cameras.
Details at high ISO - shows a part of our test chart with lots of fine detail at 6400 ISO for various cameras. This sorts the wheat from the chaff.
Colors at low ISO - Compares the color checker area on our test chart at the lowest possible ISO rating (no "ISO expansion" values) for various cameras. This gives you a good impression of how the respective cameras handle color rendition. Noise is usually no factor at these ISO settings.
Colors high ISO - Compares the color checker area on our test chart at 6400 ISO for various cameras. Noise is a major factor at this ISO setting.
When a lens that you have found in our Trust Your Eyes Tests test database is missing from your comparison, try choosing a different sensor or bigger sensor, for example full frame instead of APS-C.
Light-Intense Lens means:
- up to 89mm of focal length with a max aperture <= f2.0
- between 90mm and 300mm of focal length with a max aperture <= f2.8
- above 300mm of focal length with a max aperture <= f4.0