But then today I was working on my PC and I simply edit this with HDR and it looks pretty good to me. lol. Forgot the settings -_________-

Ahh hi! Nice to see you here too

As for filters, if you want to use best to use a multicoat filter. Any single coat filter even from Kenko, Hoya and B+W (do they have single coat filters?) will not be good and just introduce additional flare. IMO the best price/performance ratio would be the Hoya HMC series, its a multicoat and is pretty decent.

I always heard of f/1.8G being much sharper than f/1.8D. I purposely buy a 1.8G to carry around during Super GT, but performance was not what I wanted . I decided to check the focus with a focus test chart and decided to do a comparison with my f/1.8D as well. Surprised the outcome is similar in terms of sharpness! My DSLR was mounted on a tripod while doing this comparison side by side.

Below are some samples 1:1 cropped. D700 mounted on tripod, shot in JPEG L fine AWB. Guess which is 1.8G and which is 1.8D?

doesn't look hdr at all

The one on the left bro!!

Reason being is the image produced is more contrasty!! the one on the right looks slightly softer.

I have 50mm 1.8D and 35mm 1.8G...i can tell that the G is much greater/sharper wide open than the D version.

What I noticed between f/1.8G and f/1.8D is that under AWB, the f/1.8G is warmer... and the out of focus areas are smoother compared to 1.8D. Sharpness seems similar to me... (at least for my units).

I notice this for G lens, the D lens tend to give cooler tones.

Sharpness, the D version seems softer wide open; For the G version, most of the sample out there shows good sharpness wide open.

what diff between D and G?

spam picture today~

one of the way is not to upload the mentioned resolution

Ok dah, I just tried with incognito mode. Cannot save the picture already (not via Downloading)

You can disable the viewing of 1600 and 2048, means the maximum resolution is 1024 for viewing. It's in the settings somewhere.

Anyway, you can't really block people from downloading the pictures. There're many ways to download those pictures, even Picasa which uses Flash plugin for viewing picture, which means you can right-click or easily find the source from the html source code, there're still ways to find and copy the original source file.

I notice this for G lens, the D lens tend to give cooler tones.

Sharpness, the D version seems softer wide open; For the G version, most of the sample out there shows good sharpness wide open.

Yeap, when I showed my friend he also said the 50mm f/1.8G is warmer. My guess is because of reduced CA perhaps at wide open?

Sharpness wise you referring to my copies, or from the internet?

Internet, hehe
your copy hardly see any difference, probably very slight, but it looks a bit blurry as in slight double vision like shake, but you used tripod right?

the G version should be sharper.. you shud try exposure delay and also try aligning your focus chart to be in same focal plane as your sensor instead of shooting from an angle.. it should be 45 degrees downwards towards it. but the camera should be "facing" directly to it. not sure if i explained correctly @_@