Just spent two days shooting and used the new 43 with the Rm3d on 80% of the shots. Have I mentioned that 45mm is my favorite focal length on the P65+?The new Schneider is nothing short of stellar! It has excellent depth of field and sharpness that allowed 20mm of movement with ease. I'll get some samples up this evening. This lens was so worth the wait. CB
You must take a white card (LCC) calibration from every position of the stitch.You should make one for every bracket at every stitch position to be clear.Some people try and make a set of LCCs in advance at various points of rise/fall/ shift for each lens. I tried this but found that there was also variation for the lighting condition.The LCC has no effect on sharpness, however, with wider lenses like the 35mm and the 24mm where fall of is huge, centre filters should be used otherwise the LCC will rip the edges apart and create noise as it adjust the falloff to match the rest of the image.m
I have the Schneider 47mm (I'm not alone in this:). Not being familiar with the 43mm (not much info on the web that I could find), I was wondering what the 43 has over the 47? Besides a slightly shorter focal length. The 47 is a nice little piece of glass. I especially appreciate the 113mm image circle. Although the light fall off is something to wish was better, but manageable.
Maybe I'm misreading the MTF charts but, judging by those, the 43mm XL looks rather disappointing. (They can be found on the Alpa site).Compared with the 47mm it looks like it has much worse fall-off in sharpness and illumination.On the plus side, it seems to be very slightly sharper in the centre than the 47mm and have significantly less distortion than the Rodenstock HR W 40mm.The question then naturally arises of whether one wouldn't be better off just shooting with the 47mm and doing a touch of stitching when a bit extra was needed.