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Macro Photography – Tips and Techniques
There are a number of ways to get into macro photography, from less outrageously expensive. Hard Decisions to do, especially for someone not living in the photograph.
If you decide you want to explore the macro picture has a number of options. I have listed these options from what I consider the best team for the job. This does not mean buying a dedicated macro lens is always better than the extension rings, but in general the best results going this way.
* Dedicated macro lenses
* Extension tubes or bellows units
* Investing rings
* About lenses and
* Macro zoom (which are pushing the limit of what we are talking about)
Dedicated objectives macro is the best way to go if you are serious you all for making this work. It need not be expensive, I bought a wonderful Sigma Macro 50mm used for all of $ 120 (new around $ 270) and is tack sharp and produces incredible images. My main goal is a Sigma 150mm macro macro and cost a whopping $ 700, the best money I've spent. This gives an idea of the price range available and the sky the limit with some highly specialized Nikon macro lenses in the range of $ 2,000. Why the difference focal length? I'll get to that point in another article I'm working! If you are serious about buying a macro photography lens designed specifically for the purpose is the best way forward. The lens designs are optimized for close focus and the lenses are also generally flat field (an area Care flat) that produce sharper corners of flat objects such as pieces of wood or stone slabs. ground plane can be a term that many have not heard of and I will elaborate later in this as well.
Extension tubes or bellows units are pieces of equipment to put space between the camera body and lens allowing so the lens to focus up close. It can work well with some goals, for example, if you have an initial target of 50 mm this might be a good choice for into macro work at an affordable cost. Extension tubes often come in groups of three different lengths (high quality tubes tend to be sold separately) can be used alone or together to get the focal length required. Bellows work units on the same principle, but are expandable as a "bellows" that allows great flexibility. There is real disadvantage is cost, which are bulky and heavy as well. I hope that most people use the bellows units for studio work, because not only are terribly practical in the field. One area where the extension tubes really shine is to make long focal length lenses like a 300 mm focus nearby, ideal for photographing dragonflies and other scary creatures.
Close up lenses are clear "filters" that screws onto the front of lens that allows the lens to focus up close. The quality ranges from mediocre to quite acceptable depending on the quality of the filters. This is probably the most economical way macro to start shooting, but has its drawbacks. A major factor that has to be looked at is the quality of the camera lens to use. Affordable zoom lenses are likely to produce less than stellar results, while the first lens of high quality can produce excellent results, but none of these are produced sharp results tactic as a dedicated macro lens. The biggest advantage? As these are just fancy filters are very light, with no additional pipes to carry additional lenses.
Do not hear much about investing more rings, and I hope that's because most people are using zoom lenses that probably would not work very well. Investment rings allow you to mount a lens "backward" in the body of the camera. When used with high quality prime lenses the results can be spectacular and if the decline of a wide angle lens can often achieve large increases in the order of two times or more. For people interested in the filming of this large increase is often the way to follow, especially if you're on a budget.
What about the macro zoom lens you already own? Many of the new targets that come as part of a kit is labeled as a macro zoom and while they focus a little closer than normal that macro targets are met. My experience has been that most of them are very suspect in terms of sharpness because these lenses are not designed for this type of application. Of course in a pinch they will work but to get very close to her subjects one of the above options would be best.
I currently using? Are you satisfied with the results?
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