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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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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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