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G12 macro jewelry photography

Started Jul 23, 2017 | Questions thread
Mark9473 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,425
Re: G12 macro jewelry photography
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Hila-H wrote:

Mark9473 wrote:

You attached only one image taken with your G12, and I see nothing wrong with that. What is it that you're not pleased with?

Thank you for saying that but the only picture here of the G12 is of the heart. Im not an expert to know if they are good enough if there is noise...or any other problems, im happy with them.

But I wanted to buy macro lens to help me in taking good pictures but not sure as I wrote what to buy, can you advice?

The only thing a macro add-on lens for your G12 would bring, is the ability to shoot smaller objects. With the picture of the heart it doesn't appear that you have a problem filling your frame. If you don't have much more tiny objects to photograph, then this would be no benefit.

If you do want to photograph much smaller objects, then in my opinion you would be better in getting an interchangeable lens camera and a dedicated macro lens.

Be aware that shooting something much smaller brings its own difficulties; the most relevant point for you would probably be that the depth-of-field becomes really small so that only a small part of the object is in sharp focus (unless it's something flat). A way around this is focus stacking. This can be done in post-processing, but that can be tedious. However some cameras can do this as well, notably current Olympus m43 cameras are really good at this, with something like the dedicated 60 mm macro lens.

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