In a way it does render an image. What it means is each lens will produce (a/k/a render) a different look as far as contrast, color tone, sharpness and quality of bokeh it produces or as some say renders. The image you see through a lens does not exactly replicate the real world thus it renders the image. This is what they mean when they discuss or refer to a lens rendering the image.Liem Stailey wrote: I saw this mentioned in someones comment, but not a clear indication on what this means. Google didn't help either. Just a couple other post on other forums with no clear answer.
How can a lens render anything? The term from first glance doesn't make sense.
Shadowfixer1 wrote:
In a way it does render an image. What it means is each lens will produce (a/k/a render) a different look as far as contrast, color tone, sharpness and quality of bokeh it produces or as some say renders. The image you see through a lens does not exactly replicate the real world thus it renders the image. This is what they mean when they discuss or refer to a lens rendering the image.Liem Stailey wrote: I saw this mentioned in someones comment, but not a clear indication on what this means. Google didn't help either. Just a couple other post on other forums with no clear answer.
How can a lens render anything? The term from first glance doesn't make sense.
fmw wrote: I don't watch internet videos so I'm not sure what the message was. But I can tell you that single focal length lenses "render" with higher contrast than zooms. Slow lenses also produce higher contrast than fast lenses. But I wonder if it matters since contrast is easily adjustable in post process to a degree greater than the differences in the lenses. Lenses with more aperture blades produce out-of-focus highlights in a manner that some people think is better than those with fewer blades. Optical aberrations produce various "renderings" that differ from lenses with different amounts of those aberrations.
I don't think the issue is any more complicated than that. Some lenses just have characteristics that differ from other lenses. These things mattered more in the film days than they do today.
garyrhook wrote:
fmw wrote: I don't watch internet videos so I'm not sure what the message was. But I can tell you that single focal length lenses "render" with higher contrast than zooms. Slow lenses also produce higher contrast than fast lenses. But I wonder if it matters since contrast is easily adjustable in post process to a degree greater than the differences in the lenses. Lenses with more aperture blades produce out-of-focus highlights in a manner that some people think is better than those with fewer blades. Optical aberrations produce various "renderings" that differ from lenses with different amounts of those aberrations.
I don't think the issue is any more complicated than that. Some lenses just have characteristics that differ from other lenses. These things mattered more in the film days than they do today.
I disagree that it mattered more in the film days. How a lens creates an image is what the term means, and the characteristics of the lens will be evident in the result (as mentioned above).
Rendering: the manner in which a result is produced.
fmw wrote:
garyrhook wrote:
fmw wrote: I don't think the issue is any more complicated than that. Some lenses just have characteristics that differ from other lenses. These things mattered more in the film days than they do today.
I disagree that it mattered more in the film days. How a lens creates an image is what the term means, and the characteristics of the lens will be evident in the result (as mentioned above).
Rendering: the manner in which a result is produced.
It mattered more in the film days because we didn't have digital photo editing. Certainly you remember that.
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