• Members 2174 posts
    June 8, 2025, 8:58 a.m.

    The Z105 becomes a 73mm at 1:1 thanks to focus breathing.

  • Members 916 posts
    June 8, 2025, 7:49 p.m.

    So by convention and assuming that (105/22) mm is the minimum aperture size, that would be 73 x 22 /105 = effectively about f/16.

  • Members 916 posts
    June 9, 2025, 5:10 p.m.

    And I wouldn't call diffraction a problem, per se - since every capture has some diffraction in the image plane, whether it appears in the print / on-screen or not.

  • Members 2476 posts
    June 9, 2025, 11:29 p.m.

    I discovered the problem with the a7r5, it wasnt diffraction, it was slow sensor speed at 100ms using my extreme macro studio, the reason the a1mk2 was so sharp is the sensor speed is 8ms as im using electronic shutter with no black put viewing.

  • Members 916 posts
    June 11, 2025, 3:38 a.m.

    Thanks - my faith in optical physics is restored ... 😀

  • Members 2476 posts
    June 11, 2025, 6:05 a.m.

    had me questioning as well. i knew my a6700 had some very minimal diffraction at 10x but couldnt figure out why the A1mk2 was so sharp even at 50 mpixels compared to the a7r5 at 60. i can also say that 8.5 stops of IBIS is total marketing crap, because it was no better than my 5.5 stop 7iv.

  • Members 115 posts
    June 12, 2025, 8:11 a.m.

    for anyone interested in the physics of diffraction, an interesting thing to observe is how the shadow of a building is not a sharp transition between sun and shade but that there is a narrow grey diffraction-induced zone between, This is the same effect that occurs between the edges of the aperture (or any border meeting the light while in transition in the lens, (hence the importance of large apertures for resolution)) With bellows or distance rings the recording medium is farther away and this will make the effect more visible since the rays/particles continue on their presumably linear path .

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  • Members 916 posts
    June 12, 2025, 9:12 p.m.

    Good point, and Donald has mentioned his work with magnifiers e.g. 5x or 10x placed over the lens objective ... the question being: do magnifiers also affect the [focusing] distance of the aperture from the recording medium?

  • Members 551 posts
    June 24, 2025, 2:22 p.m.

    Illusion, exacerbated by upsampling methods that create pixelation (Nearest Neighbor and variants/hybrids). Instead of looking at how "sharp" details are on an insect, try both sensors with the same lens on text of variable size, like a document that scales font size by 0.8x with each subsequent line of text, printed and photographed from a distance. I don't even need to do this to know the outcome - there 60MP will record more lines, legibly, while the 33MP will give sharper results that are illegible gobbly-gook.

  • Members 2476 posts
    June 24, 2025, 9:48 p.m.

    not into black and white writing as accurate testing.
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  • Members 2476 posts
    June 26, 2025, 4:10 a.m.

    60 meg greater cropability right 🤔🫣

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