<p>This question is a fishing tease. You will get every response from arm chair "experts", casual wanna be pros to nerds to do nothing but test lenses. Sharpness is both a subjective and qualitative character of an image. Who cares whether a lens is "sharp". It is the result that matters. There are so many other characteristics to consider. Most Nikon lenses have pretty wonky distortion. Compared to the Zeiss Planar, Nikon lenses are wobbly and crude. For your next experiment, put on a converted Summicron 90 f.2 to see the 3D like quality of smoothness and colour really look like. For my money, the sharpest lens is the 45mm perspective control lens or a Tamron 24 - 70 f.2.8 (much sharper and a whole lot cheaper than Nikon). Check out the distortion and edge vignetting on the 50mm lenses. They are awful. Another fun experiment, put on a 80mm or 120mm Hasselblad Planar. Wow! Real glass.</p>