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Aperture Series: White Mountain Peak Summit Building (Canon 5DS R)
Shot with the 50-megapixel Canon 5DS R (mid-2015).
With the focus cutting through the building, only a portion of the building can be sharp wide open, yet the scene is sharp in useful areas wide open. It affords affords strong insight into sharpness and bokeh across the frame.
Also shown in crops is performance in selected 1/3 stop increments for some of the crops in order to provided insight into contrast losses from diffraction with stopping down.
A pre-release Breakthrough Photography X3 Schott B270 MR16 high transmission polarizer was used. Its color characteristics may differ from a Zeiss polarizer, but Breakthrough Photography claims that its X2 polarizer is the “most neutral of any circular polarizer available”. Your author favors high transmission polarizers in most cases (less effective at polarization) because there is not such a loss of shutter speed, particularly useful for handheld shooting and telephoto lenses. Moreover at high altitude it is easy to polarize to excess.
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