I could be wrong but watching the videos on youtube, i got the understanding that
Peter Andrew Lusztyk neither owns a IQ4 nor the Alpa stuff.
They gave him their demo kit for playing around with it because they knew
they would get some fancy youtube videos for free.
And then there is another bloke out there, Andrei Duman, who got the kit for free:
(
https://www.facebook.com/bheventspa...an-and-sandisk-professional/1137772130311110/)
My guess is, he was trying to copy the excellent work of Levon Biss (levonbiss.com) miserably failed and
than he started to lament that it´s so hard to do because his crap mac takes a whole day to write out 800 tiffs
from C1, Zerene stacker took another day on his crap mac and stuff like that, just ridiculous.
Here is what i found out after setting up my system the last few months:
The Novoflex stuff is excellent although expensive, but to buy the Alpa branded
version is just totally nonsense.
I was trying to found out what´s so special about the different incarnations of the 105 Macro
Rodenstock so i reached out too them in Feldkirchen, Munich and got the info from the engineer
who is responsible for building this thing, that there is
ZERO difference between the Alpa, Sinar,
Cambo and the Rodenstock version!
The only difference is that the industrial -Linos- version of this lens is just calibrated to match
the 12 or 16k sensor in the industrial application this lens is thenbuilt in while
the photo version gets a rotationally symmetrical calibration and a Azimuth point.
And to dispel another myth, no, the 105 is not the best macro lens out there (physically impossible
because at 5,6 you always run into diffraction at a certain magnification) there is something better
but that´s another story.