Playing with the smaller Linoscan 1800 lens, 92mm, f/7.1 on a 150mm tube lens. APS-C crop mode and magnification was about 1.4x on sensor. Straight PMax stack with no retouching.
Cropped from the original of the image above.
Dandelion-like seed head
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I don't think scanner lenses are better (than objectives) per-se. Some are, some aren't, it's a bit of a lottery.lothman wrote:very good result! I did such a shot a year ago and hab problems with lot of artefacts after stacking from the fine hairs out of focus.
Do you think the scanner lenses are better in this regards (leading to lesser artefacts). Or is it only your superior lightening ;-)
This 92mm one is pretty special though. I'm sure it's good up to 4x because at 1.8x (the highest I've had it so far) it showed no signs of oversampling at all. Pixel level sharp! Being a longer focal length with a 100 micron depth of field is probably the main thing that makes it play so well with stacking. Really does do some tidy stacks compared to (say)Mitties, especially around "hairy" details.