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Is there anyone with comparison of the following macro lenses?

Started Oct 7, 2020 | Questions thread
DanRN
DanRN Regular Member • Posts: 208
Re: Is there anyone with comparison of the following macro lenses?

gardenersassistant wrote:

Other than your use of PhotoLab, it’s not that much different (and the double pass) from what I use, but your results are way better. But then again, I hadn’t been using uber-small apertures, either.

I think the tiny apertures are the key to it.

Especially if I can mitigate the diffraction penalty in post.

I’ve only used Topaz products intermittently for bit over a year or so, learning how to tweak them. I haven’t tried multiple passes much, in fact, consciously avoiding the multiple passes inherent in, for instance, the extra sharpening in Denoise AI, extra noise reduction in Sharpen AI, etc. That was just a result of artifacts resulting from overdoing either in a single pass. I’d really prefer to have more areas of focus as a result of depth of field (old school) than totally depend on post production hoodoo.  Stacking has it’s uses, but is so often impractical.

Thanks, again.

Dan

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