Recent content by LongLensPhotography

EF, but totally and utterly pointless with that lens. It just won't resolve properly. Big fat whites may be a different story.

around 1m would be very realistic. and actually not insignificant... but sadly not a mainstream number... it is a luxury product or they may get some massive nasty modern "painting" or worse still a blank wall with horrible glossy paint and obvious wall defects. You have the luxury to do it...

really? How far do you think this goes? Something from a 60" printer for the Big wall? Just because you haven't gone this big doesn't make it "plenty"

That's hardly why you'd buy an 8K stills camera! In fact give me a 100MP (MF) one, and I'd happily make the full use of its every single megapickle

Pretty nice work. If you are looking for improvement I'd be exploring for ways to get more background separation, i.e. a little more background light power (you may get away with PS here if you make a decent enough selection) or a hair and shoulders light. Then perhaps a tiny bit of chin fill...

why not, should be net positive experience time permitting

It is reasonably easy to get sharp image from quite average glass with quite average technique at 16mp resolution. And that still easily gives you very nice a2 print. D850 and all cameras alike require exceptional glass and exceptional technique including exceptional processing to really make...

moving to sony would give you a nice justification to offload all that and rightly so. I can't say I like Sony, but I like lens choice for E mount. And I can't say I like Canon other than EF mount Sigma lenses available for it. Z8 or Z9 is the thing really

whatever the calibrator tells you to

Massive massive massive difference on desktop using 3060TI + 32GB vs 2023 Samsung i7 laptop with integrated junk. denoise runs in a few seconds vs minutes, so that much. And this is only going to grow from now on.

v1 and v2 were dreadful. Full artifacts left and right, top and bottom. I've quickly looked at v3 today and it seems to be comparable to denoise AI, so hardly any point using it; sharpen module still creating nonsense with artifacts all over. Only renewed in FEB when they nearly gave it away...

No 2 is properly outstanding capture. You could do with a slight crop and contrast boost to match the others in the series

Simply put if you want more contrast and texture you probably want to shoot on a sunny day You always want to edit on a properly calibrated display. If someone is using junk display or vivid profile that's their problem

Well exactly. You have so much choice with a recent mass market lens like this macro, you can just pick up a mint copy - preferably on ebay - for bargain prices in as little as a week or two. I tend to go with individuals over re-sellers every single time, because frankly when things are not...

always always always buy things in perfect condition. Warranty is usually not worth the paper it is written on particularly when you are starting with scruffy scrap. Good = awful in marketing speak. I believe there is just one more grade down which means a total wreck.