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Lenses quality purchasing
You live in the era of: Reviews.
Learn a bit about Lenses. Focal length, aperture, distortion.
Define your objective for the lens. Portrait, landscape, night photography, macro.
Narrow your options....
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Canon 50mm f1.8 VS EF-M 15-45 mm
May be not fully answer to the question, but shortcommings of EOS M 15-45mm can be corrected by Canon DPP, giving fully acceptable photo quality.
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Which of these lenses to choose for a studio project?
If you want the sharpest images:
turn off image stabilization
use an f/stop one down from the largest aperture
put the camera on a tripod
use flash instead of constant light
use the fastest flash ...
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Which of these lenses to choose for a studio project?
There's really never an objective "best" choice, it all depends on what you're attempting to accomplish.
My goal is to achieve the sharpest and most detailed images possible, likely ...
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What are the theoretical minimum and maximum apertures?
Since this is 2 questions (narrowest aperture, and widest aperture, I'm answering this in 2 answers
Widest Aperture (fastest f-number)
TL;DR: For a photographic camera and lens in air, the fastest ...
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How does the Leica R Telyt-R 250 mm f/4 compare to a more modern lens?
I’ve used my 250mm f4 for many years, first on a Leicaflex SL, then the R8.
Very sharp images, even wide open as I use it a lot at village cricket matches on the village green with a monopod. I ...
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What are the theoretical minimum and maximum apertures?
Since this is 2 questions (narrowest aperture, and widest aperture, I'm answering this in 2 answers
Narrowest Aperture
For imaging systems in non-scientific applications (i.e., cameras taking ...
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What are the theoretical minimum and maximum apertures?
Maximum aperture f/number of conventional lens is 0.35 = SQRT(2)/4, one step faster than 0,5.
Not zero, not 0.5, not 0.33.
Hope bloggers, commentators and wikipedia will learn that once and for all.
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Canon EF 40mm f2.8 consistently sharp across the frame?
Lenses are never consistently flat across the frame.
Lenses are real products, results of lots of compromises.
Manufacturers build them to have acceptable degradation for the intended audience and ...
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What causes lens flare from stadium floodlights in my pictures?
What causes this Effect?
The intensity of the light combined with the properties of the lens. All lenses scatter light to one degree or another. Under more even lighting conditions exposure can be ...
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What causes lens flare from stadium floodlights in my pictures?
Every light source is slightly scattered by any lens and you see point light source as a point on the photo only if it has normal brightness.
Light sources with extreme brightness reveal that every ...
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What causes lens flare from stadium floodlights in my pictures?
The job of the lens is to project an image of the outside world onto the surface of film or digital sensor. Light from the subject plays on the lens. About 95% traverses the lens and this light energy ...
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