 Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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tb_a wrote:
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To the best of my knowledge I don't have a single lens with fastest aperture of F2.8 or faster which wouldn't increase it's quality when stopped down, not even rather expensive APO ones which would at least deliver acceptable quality wide open. |
It depends on what you are doing. I am usually being paid for my images which means i must deliver e. g. 100 images for a book with a given budget. Of course i can, carefzlly and with tripod, take the images - some with good light, some with boring light, one or two with excellent light. That's what most average professionals do.
I prefer to shoot as much images in excellent light. Last time i was in Rome for two weeks (november, best time of the year) i had three days with completely clear air. During these three days, i had 1-2 hours per day where the light was beautifiul (late afternoon, early evening). And during these very few hours i took most of the images to be published. I was working very quickly, on different locations all over the city.
And i can tell you that any of my clients prefers those f2.8 (or whatever) images when they are printed  . For them (!) the increase in quality between f4 and f8 is negligeable if i use the best lenses available. But i would loose many saleable images if i would work slowly, with tripod and/or too heavy equippment. |
OK, that's a valid argument. Well understood.
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Thomas Bernardy
Manual focus lenses mainly from Minolta, Pentax, Voigtlaender, Leitz, Topcon and from Russia (too many to be listed here). |
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