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Klaus review of RF100 macro is out

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Blue-Shift
Blue-Shift Regular Member • Posts: 140
Re: Klaus review of RF100 macro is out
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tkbslc wrote:

From what I have read, the focus shift is no big deal at 1:1 or 1:1.4. And it's not there if you are shooting portraits at f2.8.

But if you are doing "medium macros" like flowers or butterflies, it's huge. And if you shoot portraits at f8 with flash, it's huge.

Hmm, not awesome. Sure, at 2.8, there is nothing to shift in the first place It did worry me a bit since what you call "medium macro" is what I do most often.

If there are problems, they don't become apparent to me. Shots like this one usually are spot-on.

EDIT: But yeah, it might be tricky to spot because most macro subjects are pretty threedimensional, so rarely everything's in focus. There is a plugin for Lightroom to show where the focus point was. I'll look into that, it should clear this up a bit.

EDIT 2: Got the plugin, it works like a charm. I'll add two examples. @tkbslc: What do you make of those? They seem good to me. Both are medium macro with pretty far closed down aperture, that should show it, right?

The focus point for the above image.

And one more example:

Fullsize picture

focus point:

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