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Do I have unrealistic sharpness expectations?

Started 10 months ago | Questions thread
16GreenBeans
OP 16GreenBeans Forum Member • Posts: 73
Re: Are these any better?

gordonpritchard wrote:

If these look better then perhaps you need to consider some post processing.

Also, f5.6 may not be the sharpest aperture for your lens. Also depth of field is shallow when shooting macro so a smaller aperture will help there as well.

Hey Gordon,

At some point, I'll probably need to step my post processing abilities. I've just started using GIMP at the moment so I have a bit of a learning curve ahead.

That said, your edits look nice! Good point about shooting at f5.6. After some research it looks like I should be able to push f11 without much of a drop in quality.

Thanks!

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