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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: 32BT on February 11, 2018, 10:35:41 am

Title: A seemingly mundane lens question
Post by: 32BT on February 11, 2018, 10:35:41 am

I was pondering lensbehavior and this question popped up in my mind, particularly considering landscape photography and for example focus stacking in lieu of scheimpflug.

Title: Re: A seemingly mundane lens question
Post by: Two23 on February 11, 2018, 11:19:21 am

Lens construction has far less effect on DoF than does aperture.  You can have both sharpness and DoF.  For landscapes, I greatly prefer tilt/shift lenses (or shooting LF) anyway.



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Title: Re: A seemingly mundane lens question
Post by: 32BT on February 11, 2018, 11:38:15 am

Quote from: Two23 on February 11, 2018, 11:19:21 am

Lens construction has far less effect on DoF than does aperture.  You can have both sharpness and DoF.  For landscapes, I greatly prefer tilt/shift lenses (or shooting LF) anyway.

Sure, and DoF is always a linear relation if I'm not mistaken, but that proposition changes if you add focusstacking in the mix. (I was considering focusstacking for the case where you need a sharp landscape, and sharp clouds above). The apparent sharpness created by focusstacking seems to introduce a very interesting look, even for a very appalling lens.