80mm Lens Shootout

[Petespockets55]

Simply in awe of your abilities Ray.
Thank you for sharing your findings.

[ray_parkhurst]

Those images are all with a different lense but the same camera??? It looks like the lighting was at the same angle and intensity??? Yet there appeasr to be differences in each image??? Unless my glasses just blew out on me

Yep, same lighting and camera for each shot, just changed lenses. This was easier since all the lenses had same focal length, so similar working distance. I just found a good position for the lights and kept them there.

[jfines69]

Yep, same lighting and camera for each shot, just changed lenses. This was easier since all the lenses had same focal length, so similar working distance. I just found a good position for the lights and kept them there.

I didn't even consider the focal length and that can make a big difference in the final out come... Very cool... Did you do any image stacking or just a single photo???

[ray_parkhurst]

I didn't even consider the focal length and that can make a big difference in the final out come... Very cool... Did you do any image stacking or just a single photo???

All of these were stacked to some extent. Some required more images than others to get a good stack. You can pretty much tell which lenses were really good, regular, or poor based on how many images were needed for the stack. I shot all at f5.6, except the ones that were not adjustable. At f5.6 you need to stack a Lincoln Cent shot, since depth of field is insufficient for a single image.