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    close-up work maximum depth of field

    Backing off won't help either. If you keep the film CoC the same it will appear to add DoF, but if you (much more reasonably) use final print CoC the change in magnification will cancel this out.

    Basically, assuming that you're constrained to a given CoC and s given diffraction-limited resolution at a constant final print size, there's nothing you can do. Not smaller format (which is what "backing off" really is), not different lens length, nothing.

    The only possible improvement is stacked images in Photoshop. Or, of course, print smaller.

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    close-up work maximum depth of field

    I think you are using the wrong media. This sounds like a job for a holograph. You could probably take the bellows off the sinar and turn it into an optical bench, and lasers are cheap these days. All you need then is a beam splitter and some Polaroid film to work out the exposure.

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