Dick
My whole professional life is in the macro world. It comes as a bit of a shock, but even current state-of-the-art digital lenses, when stopped down smaller than f16.5 are pants. The days of f209 are gone. Film just masked the rubbish lens performance. Digital raises the bar on quality and (to mix metaphors) opens a whole new can of worms. I can get away with f32 using a 6m pixel full frame back because the pixel sizes are relatively large. Even then I'm sacrificing quality for DOF. The problem is that a 16m pixel or 22 m-pixel back exposes up the deficiencies of even the best of today's optics. DOF is a problem, but there are ways round it involving technique and depending on subject matter. Optics are the next big hurdle not file sizes. You'd be amazed how well a 6m pixel image from my old LightPhase/Digiflex, prints at full page repro when shot at optimum aperture. Cheers Paul dick.roadnight(at)btopenworld.com wrote: > Ashton wrote: > My Rodenstock goes up to f209! ----------------------------------- Paul Hartley Hartley Studios London. England Paul(at)hartleystudios.com http.//www.hartleystudios.com 44 (0)20 7482 3768 ----------------------------------- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
