Ron Spencer
6-Jun-2011, 04:31
Hi everyone,
I really hope someone can help me. I will be shooting stills in my home studio and want incredible sharpness and fine details in my images. I have just about everything I need except a lens and shutter. My idea is to shoot with an H20 Phase One digital back on a Sinar P2 4x5 camera and plan to shoot the entire 4x5 area (or most of the area) with about 12 to 15 stitched shots with the Phase One H20. I have all the elements now, but I really need help with choosing a lens. I want to get the sharpest lens that I can. I know they now make digital lenses that have smaller image circles, so the line pairs per mm are tighter to match up better with the digital sensors (among other things). Do I really need a digital lens? Are there any high end 4x5 APO lenses that could deliver 50 line pairs or more? I would like to get a lens that would be equivalent to about 70 to 100mm lens in the 35mm world. Can anyone help? I know really nothing at all about large format. The lenses especially confuse the hell out of me. Do you have any links to websites that would have the information that I'm looking for?
Thanks to all for any help that you may be able to give.
Ron
I really hope someone can help me. I will be shooting stills in my home studio and want incredible sharpness and fine details in my images. I have just about everything I need except a lens and shutter. My idea is to shoot with an H20 Phase One digital back on a Sinar P2 4x5 camera and plan to shoot the entire 4x5 area (or most of the area) with about 12 to 15 stitched shots with the Phase One H20. I have all the elements now, but I really need help with choosing a lens. I want to get the sharpest lens that I can. I know they now make digital lenses that have smaller image circles, so the line pairs per mm are tighter to match up better with the digital sensors (among other things). Do I really need a digital lens? Are there any high end 4x5 APO lenses that could deliver 50 line pairs or more? I would like to get a lens that would be equivalent to about 70 to 100mm lens in the 35mm world. Can anyone help? I know really nothing at all about large format. The lenses especially confuse the hell out of me. Do you have any links to websites that would have the information that I'm looking for?
Thanks to all for any help that you may be able to give.
Ron