Close-Up and Macro Photography
Arctic Butterfly: Dry Sensor Brush ...
Hand Blowers Hand blowers are helpful. They can blow dust off lenses but are also used to blow dust off sensors. When blowing du ...
Polarizers Polarizers are helpful in removing the shine of tree leaves, the specular highlights on lakes, wavers, running water, ...
Hot-Shoe Bubble Level For some camera work, like panoramic heads, it is important to level your tripod. Trying to level a tripod ...
LED Flashlight Many photographers carry one of those small LED flashlights like those made by Fenix. I have one that takes only ...
UV-Filters I like the argument: why put a cheap piece of glass on a $1000- dollar lens. It can’t help but degrade the performanc ...
Lens Cloths Lens cloths? You need them. We all hate to touch our lenses which is why so many of us use clear or UV filters on ev ...
Velvet If you are doing a lot of studio still-life photos, pick up a piece of black velvet to have around. It makes a great almo ...
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Light Box If you are shooting objects in the studio and don’t have the budget for some fancy lights, just pick up a Light Box on ...
Pinch Cap Z-Finder Z-Finder at Zacuto.com If you are using your DSLR to take video you want to look into getting one of the Z-Fi ...
types of these on the market but I find the Z-Finder to be the best. It gives me a very clear (and very large) focusing screen. ...
Lens Caps Not all lens caps are equal. Even some very expensive lenses come with crappy caps. I just throw them in a drawer. Wha ...
certainly not strong enough to even hold a small 12-inch diffuser up in front of a light or flash. I purchased both the McClamp ...
Stuck Filters Occasionally when I screw in a filter of one kind or another on a lens, the darned thing gets stuck or somewhere w ...
tiny screw lost somewhere inside your lens. I never thought I needed these until I actually started disassembling lens parts to ...
happen all at once, but takes time. It is an investment in reality, one that I find more than worth the effort. See for yourself ...
Go to your nearest Home Depot or Lowes and pick up a few of those carry-around plastic organizers as shown here. They are perfec ...
Minolta Focusing Rail Focus Rails A focusing rail is what most beginning macro students think they need when in fact they would ...
focusing rails. I have four or five of them but seldom use them. If you are into photomicroscopy (microscopic focus stacking) yo ...
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