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So Real It's Unreal

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Sasquatchian Regular Member • Posts: 248
So Real It's Unreal
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A recent example of a product still life, macro, focus stacked image taken with the Rodenstock Digaron 105mm f/5.6 APO Macro mounted on a Novoflex tilt-shift bellows in front of a GFX 100s, shot wide open at f/5.6 with 248 focus slices. Any retouching? Oh yeah. When you get this close and this high res on something not meant to be viewed with anything but the nekked eye, you see every flaw. Will also include a shot of this beautiful lens as mounted on the Novoflex which was shot with the Contax 645 120mm f/4 Makro, another superb macro. The Contax is a more conventional 1:1 macro with internal floating elements, while the Rodenstock is designed with a manually adjustable floating element that can be set to optimize the lens from 1:3 through 3:1 reproduction ratios, or one third life sized to three time life sized and designed to be shot wide open. In the image of the lens itself you can see the adjustable floating element ring set to 1:1. You also download a pdf to print out with a scale for whatever film or sensor size you're using, to determine the exact reproduction ratio. You lay that in your frame before you shoot and see where the other end of the frame comes to on the scale, then dial that number into the lens before you shoot. Does that make a difference? Yes. It's visible, but it's still sharper than most other lenses even if the floating element ring is not set correctly. With it set right, it's just insane.

GFX 100s with Rodenstock 105mm FLOAT Macro lens

100 Percent crop

Rodenstock Digaron 105mm 5.6 FLOAT APO Macro

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