Comparison of and , where we used the shear estimator (11) within an annulus and θ_out  =  5′. Red and blue symbols correspond to a mass-limited sample while the orange and cyan symbols correspond to a magnitude cut r = 24. z_near is the adjacent redshift slice of the lens redshift z_d. For low redshifts the scaling factor λ is around 1.2 and it decreases to 1.1 for the high redshift bins. The contribution from the LSS, , to the shear is a steep function of lens redshift. Whereas for low redshifts the effect is negligible, the ratio of approaches 1 for the highest lens redshift bin considered. The flux-limited sample is in general less affected but shows qualitatively a similar behavior.