Zeiss Milvus 35mm f/1.4 Distagon: Excellent for Focus Stacking
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The Zeiss Milvus 35mm f/1.4 Distagon has outstanding color correction, which along with its superb sharpness make it a very fine lens for focus stack, as was done below (3 frame stack).
If you have not visited Whitney Portal (trailhead to the Mt Whitney trail), I strongly suggest a visit even if only for a short hike up the lower part of the trail and/or the awesome drive to the portal. If nothing else, take a picnic lunch under the stately pines with a special quiet church-like feel.
The canyon is spectacular, and while I’ve been there four times, it has been a long time and my jaw dropped—I had forgotten both the amazing approach and the canyon-wow. Just drive up Whitney Portal road from Lone Pine, CA, right off Hwy 395. A permit is required to go past Lone Pine Lake, but that’s plenty of hiking for many people anyway.
The grueling trek to the summit is tough; one hiker started at midnight and was only getting down at 4 PM. As for myself, 4 AM and down by 5 PM is more to my liking, using the steep and shorter mountaineer’s route—24 miles of trail is just to long via the main route, IMO.
(EXIF error, this is NOT a Sigma lens, but the Zeiss Milvus 35/1.4)
NIKON D810 + Zeiss Milvus 35mm f/1.4
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Control of aberrations and color errors is critical to scenes like this.
NIKON D810 + Zeiss Milvus 35mm f/1.4
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