RAPTOR LENSES | USER REVI EW
position changes. While having a range of macro lensing from 60mm to 360mm when you include their extender, the IB/E-Optics Raptors are the most comprehensive collection of macro lenses currently available for either S35 or full-frame cameras. “ DOPS ARE NO LONGER LOCKED TO A S I NGLE MACRO FOCAL LENGTH ” ABOVE A matched set of lenses helps with efficiency on a shoot.
smaller aperture to match the look of shooting on a Super35-sized sensor. MATCHED LENSES Whether you’re shooting food or commercials, documentaries or features, working with a matched set of lenses allows your production to operate more efficiently; changes happen more quickly when you don’t have to move the camera, change lens motors or swap the matte box to change your field of view. DOPs are no longer locked to a single macro focal length or working with tenuously attached diopters, the associated aberrations and optical
With the full-frame (24.1x36.2mm) sensor in the Venice, the Raptors allowed us unparalleled levels of sharpness, contrast, and clarity, balancing a delicate bokeh with a smooth roll-off in the highlights. The sensor enhances the shallow or ‘flat’ depth-of-field macro lenses are known for, where the range of what is in focus is a very narrow band, forcing separation between the foreground subject and the out-of-focus details behind. This property of the lenses allows for some striking portraiture shot with the macros, the larger sensor requiring us to stop down to a
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