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What is your aperture's "sweet spot"?

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Dunlin Senior Member • Posts: 2,611
Re: What is your aperture's "sweet spot"?

Len Philpot wrote:

Dunlin wrote:

But, on APS-C, a photo taken at an aperture smaller than f/8 will suffer from diffraction.

In my experience, diffraction may technically be there at >f/8, but it's generally not a noticeable factor until about f/13 or so.

I only really notice it if I'm trying to do a long exposure (without a ND).

Funnily, I recently found a photo in my archive shot at ISO6400 and f/16 in dim light. Why on earth did I do that?

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