Adding more adaptors only increases this loss of light. The majority of adaptors reduce the amount of light that travels to the sensor.
CREATIVE MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY FULL
With a lens that is just barely passable under normal conditions, adding extension tubes may give you a Macro shot, but it will be blurry or full of color problems. Naturally, the higher quality the lens is that you are starting out with, the better. For me, it was around f/4 to f/5, but when increasing or decreasing the depth of field, I found myself needing to readjust. For this reason, before starting to shoot, I recommend you find out what range of f-numbers gives you the best picture using your lens and its add-ons. Problem one: loss of image qualityįor every extra piece of equipment you add to your setup, you are enlarging the image along with its imperfections. On the right, after adding the extension tubes and teleconverter. For illustration purposes, the shot on the left is taken with a standard Macro lens, the Canon EF 100/2.8L IS Macro. Since it ends in an EF bayonet and mirrorless Canons have switched over to RF bayonets, there’s an EF-RF adaptor between the teleconverter and body. Setup used for this photoshoot: From left, Canon EF 100/2.8L IS Macro lens with3 black Macro rings and a white 2x teleconverter behind it. This way, I got a maximum magnification of approximately 4:1. For instance, for the majority of the photos in this article, I’ve used a 100mm Macro lens with 1:1 maximum magnification with the option to focus to infinity, to which I’ve added a total of 65mm in extension tubes, and finally, a 2x teleconverter. Today’s devices have tons of megapixels, so the loss of even a few million pixels may not matter.īy combining the above options, you may get an even more intense magnification. We shouldn’t forget even the simple cropping of the photo on a computer. Their high price tag makes them impractical to purchase solely for Macro photography.Ī useful trick is the use of a reverse lens, where all you need to do is add an affordable reversing ring to your existing equipment. Teleconvertors work in a similar way, even though Macro magnification is more so secondary in these lenses. What’s more, the focal distance range moves significantly closer to the camera, hence making it unable to focus in the distance. This way, only an enlarged cutout from the center of the image is sent to the sensor, magnified according. You can picture both as acting like a magnifying glass in front of the lens, enlarging the image before sending it on.įor interchangeable lens cameras, extension tubes are common and attach between the normal lens and camera body. There are also close-up lenses that screw into the universal filter thread of your camera. But if you don’t, you can get close-up filters based on your specific type of camera. The majority of them operate under the assumption that you own an interchangeable lens camera. Luckily there are other options available. You can forget about using it for portraits and landscapes.
A classic example is the Canon MP-E 65mm/2.8 1-5x Macro with a maximum focusing distance of about 31cm. At the same time, it’s the most expensive solution because Super Macro lenses frequently cannot be used for other types of photography. The simplest solution is to purchase a specialized Macro lens. Use your own lens, a Macro lens, or add-ons In this article, we’ll take a more in-depth look at these issues. Shooting tiny objects at a very close distance has its joys, but also brings complications that we must deal with. If you are able to shoot a 9mm object, the magnification is 4:1, and so on. For an 18mm wide object that fills the entire 36mm sensor plane, you’ll get 2:1 magnification. With increased magnification, we gradually move to the realm of Super Macro. That is, at least on a full-frame sensor with a width of 36mm. Standard Macro photography is defined by a magnification of 1:1 – objects are projected on to the sensor at their actual size. You can start out very simply and when the observation of minute details draws you in even more, you can splurge for higher-end equipment. Nevertheless, this equipment is available at many different price points. We’ll show you one of the methods for photographing Super Macro, that is, Macro with larger magnification.Īnyone can do Super Macro photography, however, it does require some less-than-standard equipment. Embark on a journey with us to the limits of normal Macro photography. But it is possible to use your camera differently and immerse yourself in a world that is usually unseen, or at the very least, not seen in great detail.
The majority of photographers spend their time shooting things that are normally observable.
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