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Can we get a review of this oddity?
Pretty please.

All right, I guess I should have been the one who backs this up with actual measurements. And I definitely made a mistake conflating MFD and working distance in a follow-up post as moedius suggeste ...

>What gaping hole?

The one for mounting your auxiliary sarcasm detector.

It took me several minutes, but I think I know how you came up with these values. It was just the lowest value printed on the lens focus ring, right? And if you add a "life size adapter" it becomes ...

Marc, I urge you to actually get the lens into 1:1 configuration and actually measure distance to a focal plane with a ruler. Off the top of my head I can tell 0.23m for 50mm will amount only to ...

It is working as intended. As a general rule of the thumb, for a life-size projection you have to get as close to your subject as the focal length of your lens. So if you measure distance to focus ...

Yup: 80/4 is a beast around 1:1 Doesn't really work well as a general purpose lens, but up close and personal it'll give you all them sharp pixels your camera can carry. Few 36Mp shots: https://www ...

Means EVF live feed has lower resolution than the EVF itself.
Mind you, resolution alone didn't stop EVFs from successfully competing with OVFs for years now.

I'm one of those new younger people you speak of. I've shot AF casually for years and my Nikon DSLR experience with MF was.. almost traumatic :) At some point I was very disappointed with my ...

Does it though? I was under impression coverage only changes with focus distance. Aperture sure does help with vignetting, but I'm not sure how it can help with an image circle.

I don't think nFD really deserved this reputation. Yes, they are plasticky compared to the previous generations of full metal lenses. But minolta MD-III series has even more plastic in it's body, ...

Sure you can. The parts we are talking about are plastic bushings and they can be substituted with clear heat shrink tubes. I've repaired 24/2.8 and 35/2. It's a pain in the ass though, as it ...

Take a look at my message you have quoted. I've talked specifically about reducing **FF** lenses on **FF** body. Obviously, reducing larger formats does make sense.

From the sound of it, it looks like you are after MFD bokeh-shots. In this case there is no reason in using focal reducer: it actually makes your job harder by decreasing already insufficient wide ...

You may want to start with something else than Canon FD. Most of those look quite modern. I do however like an unsharpened look and flares from Canon FDn 35/2 Stop using unsharp mask. Stop using ...

I doubt there is a case in using FF reducer on FF body, but I understand the desire to eliminate additional variables for science. I was in a hurry and I'm afraid I bumped my tripod between shots, ...

Olympus Zuiko 50/1.4 on a different from above LTII unit: Olympus has famously busy OOF highlights outlining. With LTII it's hard to believe the second shot was from the same lens.

Throughout the years we've heard many tales about how putting an additional glass between the lens and the sensor "just can't be good™". Now, anyone who actually used a focal reducer knows it's ...