Michael Fontana
pro member
Brave new world, with that allover-sharpness!
Since digital, we often face that overall-sharpness; I'm getting thick of it, it often lacks photo but reminds me rather generics renderings.
Is that only a reflex from good old analog time, only?
A lensbaby isn't a solution - so what should be done?
I went the other day for a Zeiss 85 mm, and yes it has that zeissy pop (microcontrast).
(Sidenote: beeing on par/better than the higlyl regarded Canon-macro 100.)
That's a stitch of 5 x 2 frames with the 85 mm; as it's taken close, DOF isn't that much, but there's plenty, or rather tons of detail. The FOV is compatable to a 35 mm-lens/FF, but then, off course it's different:
I had to downsample the 135 cm/300 dpi-image a lot to make it viewable on screen.
DOF is so shallow, that even the sculpture is out of its range:
Obviously, I will not abuse this - it won't work in every situation - but the combination of out of DOF and extreme details gave me a °feel of photography° that I didn't have for a good while.
The FOV is compatable to a 35 mm-lens/FF, but then, off course it's different.
Since digital, we often face that overall-sharpness; I'm getting thick of it, it often lacks photo but reminds me rather generics renderings.
Is that only a reflex from good old analog time, only?
A lensbaby isn't a solution - so what should be done?
I went the other day for a Zeiss 85 mm, and yes it has that zeissy pop (microcontrast).
(Sidenote: beeing on par/better than the higlyl regarded Canon-macro 100.)
That's a stitch of 5 x 2 frames with the 85 mm; as it's taken close, DOF isn't that much, but there's plenty, or rather tons of detail. The FOV is compatable to a 35 mm-lens/FF, but then, off course it's different:
I had to downsample the 135 cm/300 dpi-image a lot to make it viewable on screen.
DOF is so shallow, that even the sculpture is out of its range:
Obviously, I will not abuse this - it won't work in every situation - but the combination of out of DOF and extreme details gave me a °feel of photography° that I didn't have for a good while.
The FOV is compatable to a 35 mm-lens/FF, but then, off course it's different.