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Digital Camera > Digital Camera Know-Hows > Lens Characteristics: Color, Tone, Contrast and Resolution
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As lens performance differs, so does the look and characteristics of the resulting images. These differences are most easily seen in the image's color, subtle gradations in tone, impact-enhancing contrast, and subject detail and sharpness-enhancing resolution. All are important qualities when evaluating a lens, and each is vital to the photo's overall impression. |
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Lenses with high-quality color characteristics are said to vividly reproduce a subject's natural colors. To achieve this, today's lenses have specially-designed coatings applied that create beautiful, rich colors, free of dullness and color casts. |
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Lenses renowned for their superb tone characteristics can faithfully reproduce an abundance of subject nuances, from smooth, delicate tones to subtle gradations of subject shadows. |
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A high-contrast lens accurately recreates ranges of light and shadow and produces vivid images. Using the socalled "less is more" idea, photos taken with these lenses have excellent transparency and clarity. |
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High-resolution lenses can accurately reproduce finely detailed areas of the subject. For example in animal photos, individual strands of hair can be clearly seen. |
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