Close-Up and Macro Photography

own fault and not some lever that has decided to pop open. By hand tightening I have never yet had one fail. All of my equipment ...

The Four Camera Modes Most cameras nowadays offer you the option of several shooting modes, typically: Program Mode The camera d ...

If things are in motion you want at least a shutter speed of 250 or higher. If you are photographing still life, adjust the aper ...

Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR ...

For many years, my very most favorite macro lens, the Cosina/Voigtlander 125mm f/2.5 APO-Lanthar. ...

Lenses Are What I Like What’s photography all about? If I put aside the spiritual side of photography (which would be another en ...

learning to use the lens you have is more important than switching lenses to find the “perfect” one for your work. Almost any de ...

My first attempts at macro photography took place around the year 1956 when armed with a Kodak Retina 2a and a close-up lens I b ...

Sharpness (Zeiss Otus 55mm, f/1.4 APO) Of course I want a sharp lens but the more I work with lenses the less I am concerned abo ...

Fast Lens (Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 I value a fast lens (one with very small f-stop numbers like f/1.4, f/2.8, etc.) not because I shoo ...

get them in extreme focus. In other words: if I am blindly incrementing along with a stack and reach a key point I do finer incr ...

The Micro-Nikkor 70-180mm ZOOM Looking through the 70-180mm, it was very dim indeed and not at all bright enough for my work. On ...

Focus Throw (Leica 100mm 100mm Elmarit R) Something not often mentioned is the focus throw of a lens, how many degrees does the ...

camera on a focusing rail. I prefer the long focus throw on a lens to carrying a focusing rail around with me. I was shocked to ...

Luckily for a lot of my work I don’t always need to have a 1:1 reproduction ratio. I shoot a lot of close-up work, what I call m ...

If you are shooting insects or live ‘whatever’, some lenses require you to be so close to the subject that the end of the lens a ...

Lens Summary Those are some of my main considerations when choosing a macro lens. I don’t care how heavy or bulky a lens is. Car ...

are considered wide angle lenses, while any lenses longer that 50mm (105mm, 200mm) are considered telephoto lenses. You can do f ...

recently was limited to those photographers with enough technical expertise in Photoshop (or other software) to painstaking stac ...

have auto-focus. Although I used Abobe Photoshop in the above example because many of you may already have, it is not very good ...