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wanted to try this lens. very nice lens lots of distance between the lens and the coin. very easy to light. let me know what you think.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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here is a photo of a Canadian nickel dollar  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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photo of a toonie. this lens is a little more difficult to focus. I am waiting for a adapter for the sony camera. like to try this lens on it as well.  |
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Could you post some 100%crops of the ASE . The mamiya 120 has been on my want list for sometime(although from time time the hasselblad, made by zeiss, has caught my eye). I have the 80mmm that I use as a tilt-shift lens and I am not too enamored with its performance at high resolution. I believe the 120mm is better, but it would be good to see the 100% crops( might save me some money) Edited by austrokiwi
04/27/2016 12:04 am
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austrokiwi I found this lens. a little difficult to focus. I am waiting for an adapter. to the sony a7rII once I try this lens on that camera. I will let you know what I think of it. austrokiwi japan has released a new macro lens. I am going to purchase one of these lens later this year. the results that. I have seen lots of images. taken with this lens. I believe it would be and outstanding lens for coin photography. its aperture is F2 so it would make it easy to light coins, for this lens. I will post some more pics when the adapter gets here. have a great one
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I found this lens. a little difficult to focus. Sounds somewhat like the issue I have with the 80mm. I found using a focusing rail/stand was the solution. Just the 100% crops from the ASE picture you took would suffice. There is one major downside to coin collectors learning how to photograph coins. The very fact we collect coins indicates an acquisitive( may be a bit harsh a word) nature. So learning about photography can trap us into a new collecting interest; camera gear and specifically lenses. I purchased my second camera by selling off lenses I once thought I had to have, and a month later I have added another lens to my tool box( read that as hoard) Edited by austrokiwi
04/28/2016 12:43 am
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here is the 100% crop from the full image   |
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How much in-camera sharpening are you doing rocky? What are the settings you're using? 100% crops can be very deceiving if in-camera sharpening is used or not consistently applied.
Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.comEdited by rmpsrpms
05/03/2016 10:45 am
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ray never did any in camera sharpening. the canon camera I have now. I purchased a canon eos 70D. I find it a great camera. but there is so much more to this camera. I have to figure out all the setting. I finally gave up went and purchased. my canon t1i back. its more simple. very easy to use plus produces great images. these images was done with the eos 70. ray this lens is very difficult to focus. a hair movement its out of focus. I have purchased a pentax 120mm macro. I will post some images as soon as I get the adapter for the canon camera. austrokiwi wanted the crop to see if he may still want a mamiya 120mm. that why I did them. as for adjusting the images just a little touch up DPP. the lens works good but hard to focus very easy to light.
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ray I know that some thing is not set correctly yet. with the eos 70. the t1i I could alway get the focus bang on. but with the new camera. see ray I can set this camera you dont even have to crop your photos. ray I set the camera 1 to 1. there is so many setting in this camera. I purchased a large book to help myself figure it all out. so still trying to get every thing set. have a great one
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rocky, you may not be intentionally sharpening in camera but if you haven't turned it off then the camera is probably doing it for you. Go into the Picture Style settings to see what you're doing there. If you haven't made any changes, you're probably shooting in "Standard" style and your sharpening level is "3". That is the camera default. It is quite a bit of sharpening and strongly affects the 100% crops.
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That experiene is much like what I experienced with the Mamiya 80mm F4. So Rocky has saved me some money
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Careful with this, as you can easily make the wrong decision. When a lens is hard to focus, ie it goes out of focus with just very small movements versus other similar lenses at the same aperture and magnification, it usually means the lens is better than those other lenses, not worse. Lenses that are easy to focus, and have greater apparent depth of field than other similar lenses, are usually of lower quality.
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I think you misunderstood...... I won't be buying it. that's how I will be saving money
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05/03/2016 3:29 pm
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austrokiwi ray was right. I had to go in reprogram the camera. it was set to exactly what he said. so wait until I get the camera charged back up. I will re do the test again . thank you ray for the help. I am getting a lot more at easy of making changes to these camera. thank you for your help
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