Vineet666 wrote in post #8558322
Thanks for the critique. I like RAW, but don't like its bulkiness. I will most likely shoot RAW when I'm doing an assignment, but can't you get similar adjustments with JPEG in Lightroom? I can control the exposure and contrast (though not extremely), but to a respectable degree in Lightroom with Jpeg.
As for the 1.8, I was surprised myself but 2.8 was not giving me a good bokeh! I've shot with this lens at 2.8 in the past, which works fine, but yesterday is just gave too much detail in the background. Maybe there is something wrong with the lens or I didn't do something right. I'll have to test that again.
Any more criticism and comments would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Fixing a jpeg in lightroom is not the same as converting a raw file. When you take a jpeg with your camera, your camera interprets your settings and applies a certain amount of sharpness, color bias, contrast, white balance etc. and those things are fixed. the rest of the information from the sensor is discarded. You can tweak a jpeg later but any changes you make futher degrade the quality. when you shoot raw all the data from the sensor is dumped to the file, if you want to change the white balance, contrast, sharpness and color vibrancy you can make those adjustments and convert to jpeg. if you decide later to reinterpret the shot, all that data is still there in the raw file. Basically you get a second, or third etc.. shot at decision making.
As for the bokeh on the 1.8, first worry about the image quality of that which should be in focus. Trying to achieve an area of blurred background is sort of silly if your depth of field isn't sufficient to keep your subject in sharp focus. Also, to get "bokeh" (I'm growing to hate that term) you need to create shots that make use of it. in two of the shots you posted the background areas that are too close and too laden with detail to get nice bokeh anyway.
