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Old 19-08-2009, 07:30 PM
dpastern (Dave Pastern)
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Originally Posted by Lumen Miner View Post
Yes, more definatley!! Using a reversed slr lens, only gives you maybe 1cm depth of field. Possibly less.
1:1 (lifesize) gives you depth of field around 6mm or so from my experience. At f11. Sure, you can stop down more, but then you'll lose sharpness and resolution due to diffraction. Even more so with the smaller pixel sizes on most digital compacts. The benefits of compact digitals for macro is that the smaller sensor escapes COC (circle of confusion) as a rule.

Good shots. You'd probably have fun with a Canon MPE-65 + DSLR (gives 5:1 magnification).

Dave
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